For months, WhatsApp has been testing a feature that allows users to use their accounts on multiple devices at the same time and continue sending and receiving messages without the need for their smartphone to be online. This feature is now officially available to the public in the latest WhatsApp update on both Android and iOS versions.
Prior to this feature, you needed to make sure your phone was online to connect to the WhatsApp Web Edition account. But with the release of this very useful feature, you no longer need your smartphone to be online. To use this feature, you need to select the Multi-device beta option in WhatsApp. Once enabled, all your previous connections to each device will be canceled before you reconnect to a new device. After reconnecting to the device, you can chat with your friends, whether your smartphone is online or offline. In addition, messages and calls are still encrypted as before.
With this new feature, you will be able to use the WhatsApp web version for 14 days after your phone is offline. If you are in a situation where you do not have your smartphone with you and you need to communicate with people through WhatsApp, or if your smartphone runs out of battery and you have access to a computer, this new feature will definitely come in handy. Of course, this feature also comes with some limitations. Unfortunately, there is a limit to iOS that you can not delete your messages in the web version. It is also not possible to connect WhatsApp to two smartphones or tablets. To access this feature, you need to have the latest version of WhatsApp installed on your smartphone, and activate this useful feature by referring to the “Linked devices” section.
WhatsApp is by far the most popular messaging app in the world and is used by about 2 billion users worldwide. Currently, after sending a message, there is a time limit for deleting the message, but it seems that WhatsApp, like Telegram, intends to remove this limit. In 2018, this platform made it possible to delete messages for both sides of the chat, but users can now delete them up to 4096 seconds (68 minutes and 16 seconds) after sending the message.
The WABetaInfo site, which specializes in WhatsApp news, has found evidence that this restriction has been lifted in the latest beta version. Meta (formerly Facebook) has also paid special attention to WhatsApp in recent months. For example, some time ago it was possible to transfer chats from iPhone to Android, and backup versions of chats now use universal encryption. It remains to be seen what new capabilities these popular messengers will use in the future to further satisfy users.
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