WhatsApp is end-to-end encrypted. No one at Meta can read your messages.
If I can log into whatsapp on a new device and old messages aren’t encrypted then they have a copy of your key and it is not true e2e encryption.
How are we sure that it is really end-to-end encrypted?
alt Hacker News
If I can log into whatsapp on a new device and old messages aren’t encrypted then they have a copy of your key and it is not true e2e encryption.