How to export a WhatsApp chat (iPhone & Android)

Exporting a WhatsApp conversation takes under a minute and doesn't touch your account login. Here's exactly how, on both phones — and how to include voice notes.

On iPhone

1. Open the chat you want to export.
2. Tap the contact or group name at the top to open its info screen.
3. Scroll down and tap Export Chat.
4. Choose Attach Media to include photos and voice notes (or Without Media for text only).
5. Pick where to save or send it — Save to Files, AirDrop, or email it to yourself.

On Android

1. Open the chat you want to export.
2. Tap the three-dot menu (⋮) in the top right.
3. Tap More, then Export chat.
4. Choose Attach Media to include voice notes, or Without media.
5. Choose how to save or share the file (Drive, email, etc.).

What's in the export?

With media, you get a .zip containing a .txt of the whole conversation plus the photos and voice notes. Text-only gives you just the .txt. Either works — but if you want voice notes analyzed, choose Attach Media.

Tips for a cleaner export

• Export each chat separately. WhatsApp exports one conversation at a time, so repeat the steps for any other chat you want to look at.
• Choose Attach Media if voice notes matter. Text alone is enough for tone, reply timing and who texts first, but voice notes carry things text can't.
• Very long chats may be trimmed with media attached. WhatsApp can limit how many messages come out of an export that includes media. If you care most about the full run of messages, a text-only export keeps the whole history.
• Upload the file as it is. Don't edit the .txt or rename what's inside the .zip, so the timeline stays accurate.

Then what?

Upload the file to iNexus — large multi-year archives upload in resumable chunks, so size isn't a problem. It reads the text right away, transcribes voice notes in the background, and lets you ask plain questions like "when did she start pulling away?" with the exact messages as proof.

Which page to open next depends on what you want to know. The WhatsApp chat analyzer is the direct route for an exported chat. For a conversation that spans years, full message history analysis reads the whole archive at once and shows how things moved over time. If you'd rather ask about specific messages, the relationship text analyzer answers plain questions with the exact messages as proof, and you can go straight into the iNexus app to upload your file.

Not sure what to ask first? Two common starting points are when did my relationship change and what being left on read means.