WhatsApp - how to change email used for emailing a group of messages

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Hi. I am hoping you can help with the following.
My dad had a phone on which WhatsApp was installed. For some reason the email account he provided was one that he didn’t use often.
My mum has since taken over the phone with the same number. However on trying to forward a group of messages to an email address, they did not arrive. This is when I found the account was linked to an email address that won’t be used going forward. Whether the email is active or not is unknown at this moment.
My dad had a phone on which WhatsApp was installed. For some reason the email account he provided was one that he didn’t use often.
My mum has since taken over the phone with the same number. However on trying to forward a group of messages to an email address, they did not arrive. This is when I found the account was linked to an email address that won’t be used going forward. Whether the email is active or not is unknown at this moment.
I am trying to change the sending email address to one actively used by mum.
The internet suggests using 2 step verification. That is one can of worms i don’t want to open.
Any suggestions for making this change without using 2 step verification?
In the interests of full disclosure:
Dad’s phone was a Samsung. The email was a gmail account.
When the Samsung started misbehaving, it was replaced with an iPhone SE. A technical support person at John Lewis transferred the email and WhatsApp over from the Samsung to the iPhone.
Mum’s email is a gmail account.
I am hoping by fixing the email used by WhatsApp will fix not being able to forward WhatsApp messages to an email address.
Thanks in advance.
The internet suggests using 2 step verification. That is one can of worms i don’t want to open.
Any suggestions for making this change without using 2 step verification?
In the interests of full disclosure:
Dad’s phone was a Samsung. The email was a gmail account.
When the Samsung started misbehaving, it was replaced with an iPhone SE. A technical support person at John Lewis transferred the email and WhatsApp over from the Samsung to the iPhone.
Mum’s email is a gmail account.
I am hoping by fixing the email used by WhatsApp will fix not being able to forward WhatsApp messages to an email address.
Thanks in advance.
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When the account was moved from the Samsung to the Apple was the backup moved to iCloud or was it set to remain on Google Drive?
Are you trying to preserve/download the historical WhatsApp messages associated with the account? You mention trying to forward WhatsApp messages to an email address, it doesn't work like that. All messages are exchanged between accounts which means between phone numbers.
Mum also was happy not having any chat history. So I think it was a vanilla transfer. No messages were transferred.
I want the current messages kept.
On my iPhone. I can select a message, then select forward. I can then select which messages to forward by clicking on each individual message. Then I can choose how I forward the message: SMS text, WhatsApp or email.
If I choose email, then the iOS new email window opens, with the text of the selected messages. I enter the recipient’s email address and subject then send.
If memory serves, the iOS email app is set to mum’s current email as the sender. However when selecting email forwarding in WhatsApp, dad’s little used email address shows as the sender.
I could recheck the email settings for the iOS email app, but that will have to be later this week when I next visit mum.
Are there any other things I could try?
Thanks.