After being in beta for a few months, Meta launched a WhatsApp feature that many people have been waiting for: be able to use the service from several devices without having to depend on the iPhone as a “repeater” or place it nearby. And it does this by maintaining end-to-end encryption (not like Telegram, for example), thus maintaining some privacy. True
This is a huge step to be able to be more flexible with this messaging service. If, for example, our iPhone’s battery is exhausted, we can continue to use WhatsApp from our Mac without any problem. All changes made will be synchronized with the phone once we can charge it again.
Finally, WhatsApp behaves like the rest of the cross-device messaging services.
To access this function we need to have the latest version of WhatsApp installed on our phone, so make sure the App Store has done all pending updates.
If you come across this point, go to the ‘Setting‘from WhatsApp (in the lower right corner of the screen) then enter’Linked devices‘. The following message will appear:
Click on ‘Update’ then on ‘Update now’ in the information screen that will appear later. Any WhatsApp sessions you had open on other devices will be closed to be able to change the timing system.
Once you update the feature, you can use the same WhatsApp for macOS app present in the Mac App Store to re-link the service with your iPhone. You will see that the system has changed when you see the following notice in the message area of the app:
The process is the same: go to ‘Link Device’ and focus the camera on the QR code which will appear in the application for Mac. The interface doesn’t change, but you can now put the iPhone in airplane mode and continue to use WhatsApp on the Mac without a problem.
The change is also reflected in the web version of WhatsApp, so you can repeat the same process by opening this website on the iPad. This isn’t the ideal native client situation for the device, but it’s something we should see resolved soon.
WhatsApp allows us to start the session in a maximum of 5 devices: our iPhone which will serve as the main device, then four other devices. It works for two Macs and two iPads, for example. Nothing bad.
