Format guide
WhatsApp Chat
WhatsApp chat export
WhatsApp lets users export individual chats as either a .txt transcript or a .zip containing the txt plus all the referenced media. Used for: archiving conversations before switching phones, court evidence (a chat transcript is increasingly admissible), and personal record-keeping. The format is line-per-message: "[date, time] sender: message" on iOS or "date, time - sender: message" on Android.
How to open a WhatsApp Chat file
Plain text in any editor. The .zip needs unzipping first; inside is the txt + media files. Convert to PDF for paginated archiving or CSV/JSON for structured analysis.
Primary use
Archiving personal chat history before phone migration or for legal records.
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