How to copy correspondence in contact completely. How to copy and paste text on a smartphone? Learning Android
Thanks to modern technology, we can perform actions that seemed fantastic even fifty years ago: being many thousands of kilometers apart, we communicate as if there is no distance. Sometimes it is necessary not to lose the result of this communication. Therefore, it is so important for us to know how to save correspondence in WhatsApp.
When sending information through this service, the data is subjected to special encryption processing, thanks to which it is protected from theft. Therefore, if you want to keep the correspondence in Vatsap, you need to know some features of working with such files.
To find out, read our article.
How to save WhatsApp correspondence to a computer?
There are several ways to keep correspondence in Votsap. With some messages are saved as encrypted files and it is impossible to read them or even just open them without the Vatsap application. This method is called backup. Another method allows you to save information in the form of readable files, but in Vatsap they will not open anymore.
The latter variety includes saving correspondence to a computer. As a result, you will receive files in the formats .txt, .pdf, .gif and so on, which can be opened on a laptop or computer, but can not be returned to the Vac.
In order to save WhatsApp history from iPhone, Android and other devices to your computer, you need to use sending emails to chats. This method is described in some detail below. 
How to save WhatsApp messages when changing phone?
This method is called backup and allows you to transfer information again to Vatsap when changing the phone. It’s best to copy files to the cloud, although on some devices there’s a way to save WhatsApp messages on your phone.
For smartphones created on the basis of different operating systems, the methods differ slightly, so choose the brand of your device below and follow the instructions.
Windows phone
- Log into WhatsApp and open “Settings”;
- Choose “Chats and calls”;
- Touch the inscription “Backup”;
- You can also save media files by ticking “Add video to backup”;
- Click on the “Copy” button and wait for it to finish.
On the new Windows Phone, install the Vatsap program and enter it under the same number. On the offer of the system to restore the backups, give your consent.
To find out, read our other article.
iPhone
First you need to find out if you have an account on iCloud, and if not, then create it. Now you can proceed directly to copying information.
- In WhatsApp you need to find the application control panel (usually in the upper right corner) and touch the word “Settings”;
- In the settings, find "Chats" and enter there;
- Open the item "Copy";
- Touch the Create Copy virtual button and wait a bit until the copy is complete.
- If you want to save video and other media files as well, check the corresponding box.
Now, when you log into WhatsApp on a new phone under an old account, the application itself will offer you to download the conversation back to WhatsApp from iCloud. You only need to confirm your consent with a single tap on the screen.
To find out, you can read our article.
Android
On phones on this platform, backing up Vatsap files is best done on a virtual Google Drive, which is related to your main Google account.
- Click on the “Backup” button and wait for the process to complete.
In the new phone, you can log in to Vatsap under the same number and restore copies from the virtual disk.
How to send WhatsApp correspondence to e-mail?
To transfer your messages via e-mail to another medium, you need to go into the application and follow these steps:
- In the upper right corner, click on the panel with three dots. You will see the application menu.
- Select the "Settings" item in it.
- Touch the inscription Chats.
- Touch the Chat History option.
- Now find "Email". All chats will open for you to choose. They need to be sent one at a time.
- If some chat is not completely forwarded, then its length exceeds the possible size for sending by e-mail. You will be able to check exactly which messages have arrived and, having deleted the received messages from the chat, try to send it again.
The fashion for smartphones with a touch screen has almost replaced conventional phones with a simple screen and a classic keyboard from the mobile device market. However, buying a device with a touch screen for the first time is not so easy to immediately understand all the functions for its operation. For example, how to copy and paste text on a smartphone with a touch screen on Android?
Of course, most people who know how to use a computer are well aware that copying text is done by simultaneously pressing the "Ctrl" and "C" keys, and pasting - the "Ctrl" and "V" keys. However, to carry out these actions by pressing the usual keys, like on a computer, on smartphones with Android OS impossible, although copying and pasting text on them is as simple as on a PC.
If you are one of those users who still do not know about the existence of copying and pasting texts on their phone, then there is nothing surprising in this. After all, these options exist only by default and represent the elements hidden device capabilities, and in Instructions nothing has been written about the phone about them.
And so, you need to copy the text from the browser, application or a separate document available on your phone, paste it into a new document and send a message. To perform this action, you must:
2. After it is highlighted, special sliders should appear on its edges, moving which you need to increase or decrease the size of the selected text to the scale you need.
3. Next, you need to copy the selected fragment text, which can be done by choosing one of these two options:
- repeatedly click on the selected area and hold your finger until a window pops up at the holding point " Copy". To confirm the action, click on it and the desired text will be immediately saved to the clipboard.
Use the tab located at the top of the screen. Open it and select "Copy" from the list of basic actions for manipulating text. Here you can also select the entire text and cut the selected fragment.
4. Now you need to insert copied text into a new document and send a message. To do this, open a new document or the message itself and again hold the finger on the screen for a long time until the "Insert" window appears at the holding point. After clicking on this item, the copied text will be displayed successfully in a new document or in the message body. To to send him, you must enter the addressee and confirm the sending. If you copied the text to a new document, you need to attach it to the sent message separately.
Especially for those who find copying text on Android devices difficult, the developers have come up with many applications to simplify this process. You can download them from the Google Play Market for free, and the most popular among them are Copy to Clipboard, CopiPe - Copy and Paste tool, aNdClip Free - Clipboard ext, Copy Text, Clipper and Copy Paste "
Unfortunately, the CopiPe - Copy and Paste tool, Copy Text, and Clipper"are not Russified, and therefore for users who do not speak English, they may not work due to errors in choosing the icons that appear in the status bar above all the tabs. All these programs allow you to copy, store and edit texts. 
The program "anNdClip Free - Clipboard ext" is a kind of notebookwhere all of the clipboard is saved. We recommend it to those who want to save frequently used E-mail addresses, links and phone numbers. You can use it to store passwords. Copy text links or the address book to the buffer is made in the same way as in all Android phones, only everything that you copied is automatically saved in the folders of this program.
And finally, another convenient and simple program for copying texts of letters, using the text editor of blogs and social networks is Copy paste. After copying text using this program, you can paste it into any text field. To do this, only briefly hold up finger on this field, so immediately the text is copied and literally two clicks pasted into the right place. But when working with Russian text using Copy Paste, translation difficulties may arise, since this program still does not understand Cyrillic alphabet in Android devices.
Everyone in the smartphone has important data, such as personal correspondence. It is useful to know how to correctly copy SMS from your Android to a computer, so as not to lose them in case of loss of the gadget.
Paid Apps
The cycle of changing mobile devices is constantly decreasing. At the moment, it is 1-3 years. The developers of the Android OS did not take this circumstance into account and did not provide for the transfer of saved messages to external media with built-in services.
One of the best third-party programs for backup SMS, contacts and call log is Backup to gmail. To create an archive, the user needs to have a Google account.
Before transferring SMS to another device, you also need to install Backup to Gmail on it. The user must log in and click the Restore button. After these steps, data will be copied to the memory of the new device.
The application will also help to download SMS in the archive for iOS devices, since there is a version for this platform. You can buy and download the program on Google Play. The price is $ 2.
Shareware
has a free version and intuitive interface. Using it, you can create a local copy of an SMS phone as follows:
- Run the program and select SMS Backup.
- Click Backup to copy all messages or Backup Conversations to save individual conversations. After that, the data archive will appear on the SD card.
- If the user wishes, the application can send a backup to e-mail.
Saved data is best placed on the cloud or dropped onto a flash card.
Another option is SMS Backup Android Trial. The free version runs on the device only a few times, but this is enough to create a backup copy of messages on your computer. The application allows you to download SMS in text format to a hard drive or external media, and can also send a file with correspondence to Gmail.
If the archive is created in order to transfer it to another device, then after it is formed, SMS Backup Android Trial must be installed on a new gadget. Next, you should log in and restore the data by clicking on the Restore button. Correspondence downloaded in this way will be available in the Messages service of the new device.
There are 2 less popular but more functional utilities:
Free Services
How to save an archive with SMS for free? Google allows you to back up information from your phone to the cloud, which is synchronized with your user account. Data is automatically renewed if you log in to your account.
There are several completely free programs that can cope with this task:
Unfortunately, you can not transfer SMS phone from Android to PC by default. Therefore, you have to use a special program. The exception is the situation when the user has already installed a third-party application for writing messages that allows you to create their backup copies for import.
