New clues about the arrival of WhatsApp multidevice to chat and call from multiple devices with the same account, but also new information about all the limitations of the function.
There are many new features boiling in the pot inside the code of WhatsApp beta versions: version 2.21.60.11 for iOS, for example, in addition to bringing to iPhones the three speeds for voice messages already seen on Android makes a further step towards the long-awaited multi-device WhatsApp.
That is, the ability to simultaneously use the same WhatsApp account on multiple devices, and to use WhatsApp Web, WhatsApp Desktop or Facebook Portal without keeping the main smartphone connected. All this, however, will not be available for everyone or, at least, not right away: the new feature to use WhatsApp on multiple devices will be enabled through a new beta program for WhatsApp Web, open to both those who use the iOS app and those who use the Android one. It’s not yet clear, however, when this new beta program will be launched and whether you’ll need to be already part of one of the two test programs for smartphone beta apps to get in.
How multi-device WhatsApp will be
Although doubts about multi-device WhatsApp are still far more than certainties, however, we already have some information about how it will look and how you can use it. Information found in the code of the latest beta app for iOS by the well-known site Wabetainfo.
With the new multi-device WhatsApp, the “Delete for All” feature will initially only be available on the connected device, but not on all others. Messages and calls to someone who doesn’t have a recent version of the app won’t work on the connected device.
Other WhatsApp accounts connected with Facebook Portal won’t work if those accounts aren’t part of the WhatsApp Web Beta program, just as you won’t be able to call a Portal who isn’t participating in the program.
WhatsApp multidevice, when?
The real question everyone is asking about WhatsApp multidevice is when it will arrive. The feature has been expected (and tested, in various ways) for at least two years and it’s almost unbelievable that WhatsApp can’t make it available to everyone when other competitors (Telegram first and foremost) have been offering it for some time now.