WhatsApp may be working on an option to use account on more devices – IT Pro – News

New indications have emerged that WhatsApp is working on the ability to use an account on different phones. New text in the beta version indicates that users could activate their account on up to four devices.

The new option became discovered by WhatsAppBeta in the latest Android beta. In version 2.20.196.8, the menu option for WhatsApp Web has been replaced by ‘linked devices’. Users who click through see a different screen than before. The menu to use WhatsApp Web has changed to a more generic onion that allows users to ‘link a new device’. It is striking that WhatsApp specifically mentions the Facebook Portal.

In itself, the new menu in the beta does not say much, but combined with previous betas it seems that WhatsApp makes it possible to use the service on several devices at the same time. Then for example changed the text as soon as a user activated a new device. WhatsAppBeta now writes that it concerns up to four devices on which WhatsApp can be used. That is less than what is allowed with WhatsApp Web.

For the time being, nothing is officially known about the feature. WhatsApp hasn’t said anything about it yet. So it is not clear how the new function should work. Maybe that’s just like WhatsApp Web, where one device should be the main device and pair with another device. That way, WhatsApp can guarantee that the end-to-end encryption of the service will continue to work.

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