One of the biggest wishes of Apple and WhatsApp users seems to be coming true soon. After many years of waiting, WhatsApp will officially arrive on iPad soon as confirmed by Mark Zuckerberg and Will Cathcart, CEO of WhatsApp. Popular media WABetaInfo, who analyzes WhatsApp betas in depth, was able to speak to the two, who confirmed this and other features that will be coming to the messaging app soon.
As he reveals WABetaInfo, There are days WhatsApp CEO Will Cathcart reached out to discuss app news. Without a doubt, a privilege. The conversation took place through the app itself, and soon after, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg joined the conversation to talk about future news.
The arrival of WhatsApp on the iPad is confirmed, and some new features
Mark Zuckerberg and Will Cathcart thanked WABetaInfo your work informed of all news from WhatsApp, something interesting since the medium filters a lot of information about the future functions of the application. And as the conversation progressed, the two executives revealed some very interesting information about the upcoming WhatsApp news.
The first big novelty they reveal is linked to the confidentiality. Mark Zuckerberg confirms that they have been working on this kind of functionality for a long time, including end-to-end encryption, and confirms the arrival of the disappearance mode which we already talked about a few days ago.
In addition to that, it also confirms the arrival of another function called Show once. This function will allow you to send a photo or video and the recipient i can only see it once, the file will disappear from the chat.
After that, WABetaInfo decides to ask questions about one of the star features we all look forward to: the Support for multiple WhatsApp devices.
Mark Zuckerberg explains that “it was a great technical challenge to synchronize all your messages and content” and confirms that it is something that will arrive very soon. Will Cathcart says in the chat that this feature will launch in a public beta in two months.
On top of all this, when asked directly, Cathcart confirms that WhatsApp on iPad will be compatible thanks to the multi-device function, that they plan to open the beta to other iOS users soon and that we can have up to 4 devices linked to the same WhatsApp account.
They are certainly very interesting news which we hope will come true soon. WABetaInfo discovered the multi-device support of WhatsApp several months ago and it seems that very soon we will be able to enjoy the application on the iPad, which now can only be done through WhatsApp Web.
