Support merging multiple profiles into a combined one

Feature Proposal
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  • Select a single destination profile and one or more source profiles
  • Backup everything
  • Copy contacts (or bulk export & import vcard as a separate feature)
  • Create private chats with the same contacts
  • Invite the destination profile to the same groups, preferably with a pasted explanation
  • Locally copy each message and attachment present in the chat history of the source profiles to the chat history of the destination
  • Display the difference in profile settings, including name, bio, avatar, cleanup interval, etc.
  • Leave all groups with the source profiles
  • Delete all messages and groups from the source profiles
  • Keep monitoring the source profiles for later incoming messages to migrate for a month, and then delete those profiles

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Leaving the group and so on seems dangerous, maybe you still want to keep using the old profile to add your new profile to chats. Iā€™d leave it up to the user what to do with the old profile.

I think Telegram has/had a feature to import chats from WhatsApp: Moving Chat History from Other Apps. Transferring chat history and contacts looks like the most important part.

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I suggest in the 5th point to add the new profile to every group the old profiles had access to, so that might not pose a barrier.