WhatsApp is working so that you can use an account on multiple devices at the same time and without an Internet connection

June
4, 2021

2 min read

WABetaInfo had a conversation with Will Cathcart and Mark Zuckerberg, where they confirmed some new features that are working for WhatsApp . Among them, it stands out that in the future it can be used on multiple devices.

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So far, we can have several sessions of the application on different devices, however, it is not possible to use them at the same time. Against this, Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook and now owner of the instant messaging platform explained that:

They are working on the possibility of using your WhatsApp account on different devices, without an active Internet connection. “It has been a great technical challenge to synchronize all your messages and content,” says the businessman.

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Apparently, this update will be available to beta users in the coming months. Will Cathcart, CEO of WhatsApp, explained that it will only be possible to use on a maximum of four devices at the same time and that the messages will continue to be end-to-end encrypted.

Media files that disappear?

Zuckerberg too commented that after having implemented the temporary messages they are working on multiple updates to improve within which are “multimedia files that disappear”, that is, photographs and videos that will be opened only once and then you will not be able to see, in the best style of Instagram messenger, which is known as “view once”.

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They also continue to work to generate ephemeral messages, that is, messages from various conversations are deleted from time to time.