It seems unbelievable that WhatsApp still doesn’t have a version for tablets, but it’s true. So far, all we can do is launch the web version of WhatsApp using a browser.
[Se aproxima a WhatsApp la posibilidad de vincular una tablet a tu teléfono móvil]
It’s not that Meta has anything against tablet users. It’s a glitch, a consequence of the way WhatsApp was initially designed, replacing SMS and therefore associated with a phone number that tablets do not have.
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To solve this problem, WhatsApp has been modifying its internal infrastructure for some years to allow connection from other types of devices, associating them only with the mobile on which the application is installed. So, in recent months, the desktop applications and the web application have been updated to allow this type of connection.
The next step will be to launch an app specifically designed for tablets, and this time, yes, it looks like it will reach users. It’s not the first time, far from it, that a WhatsApp for tablets has been rumored, but now in WABetaInfo They discovered an official message asking users to test the beta version of the application.
Therefore, initially only WhatsApp Beta users you can try this application for tablets; if they get the message, they can sign up to try it out. This implies that the launch for the general public of the application should not take much more than a few months, depending on the number of “bugs” found.
To use the WhatsApp application for tablets, we will have the same limitation as WhatsApp for Windows or for the web: we cannot simply log in with a user account, as other applications like Telegram do. We should associate the application installed on the tablet with our mobilescanning a QR code that will appear the first time we open the app and enter our phone number.
From then on, the application on the tablet will be synchronized with the mobile application, and we will be able to access our messages and use them normally. At the moment it is not clear if this application for tablets will be very different from the one for mobile, but it is necessary to imagine that there will be changes in the interface to adapt to the larger screen. But above all, the main difference is that we can finally enter the Play Store and install WhatsApp directly on our tablet.
