WhatsApp will soon work on 4 devices at once, confirmed

One of the most anticipated features of WhatsApp is finally here: syncing across multiple devices at the same time. The information was confirmed by Mark Zuckerberg and Will Cathcart, bosses of Facebook and WhatsApp. It will be possible to use the same account on four devices at the same time. And the iPad could become compatible.

Several new features are coming soon to WhatsApp. The information was not released by press release. Mark Zuckerberg and Will cathcart, respectively bosses of Facebook and WhatsApp, simply “chatted” about the application with the editor of the site WABetaInfo. The latter took some screenshots of his conversation with the two bosses and posted them on his site. If you want to read these exchanges, go to the link at the end of this article.

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What was announced? First, rest assured: this is not the umpteenth change of mind about whether or not to accept the new terms of use of personal data and their sharing with Facebook. We can breathe a sigh of relief about this. The subject of this discussion is much more interesting. Because the two bosses have announced the upcoming arrival of several features for instant messaging.

The same WhatsApp account on four devices at the same time

The first of them has been awaited for several years. It has even been in development for a year. We were talking about it in August 2020. It is about the possibility of using the same WhatsApp account with several devices. And that obviously includes the synchronization of messages from one to the other. Will Cathcart specifies thatit will not be possible to use more than four devices with the same account. And he didn’t say whether web browser access is included in all four.

Another novelty related to the first: the iPad could soon become compatible with WhatsApp. This had not been the case until now, since it was necessary to associate a phone number with an account. Since it will be possible to use different devices with a single account, this restriction should be lifted for all secondary devices (but it should remain active for the device that will create the account).

New features for ephemeral message users

Third novelty, the “ephemeral” mode. It’s a mode that relies on ephemeral messages that have been in testing since April. Until now, you have to specify for each message that it is ephemeral before sending it. With this mode, all your messages will be ephemeral by default, whether in a conversation already in progress or in a new discussion. The rules for self-destruction should remain the same. Latest news, WhatsApp announces the arrival single view photos and videos. This is content that self-destructs once it has been viewed for the first time.

All of its new features are coming very soon, including syncing across multiple devices. The latter should be available to everyone beta program members in the next two months. Either before the end of July. If this test phase goes well, other WhatsApp users can quickly benefit from it as well.

Source: WABetaInfo