The feature also doesn’t change how WhatsApp uses cloud backups for users, a spokesperson said.
Messages are not stored on the server after they are delivered.” “Each message is individually encrypted using the established pairwise encryption session with each device. “To achieve this, we had to rethink WhatsApp’s architecture and design new systems to enable a standalone multi-device experience while preserving privacy and end-to-end encryption,” the company wrote. It also allows for only a single companion device to be operative at a time, meaning people can’t be on a call in Portal while checking their messages on their PC, for example. But the multidevice support flow currently requires the phone to be connected to the internet.īy requiring the phone to perform all operations, companion devices are slower and frequently get disconnected - especially when the phone has a poor connection, its battery is running low, or the application process gets killed by the phone’s OS. A user can simultaneously access the service, for instance, from a web browser or a desktop app on their computer. To be clear, WhatsApp, which is used by more than 2 billion users globally, already provides support for multiple-device use. “Each companion device will connect to your WhatsApp independently,” said the messaging app in a post. A WhatsApp spokesperson told TechCrunch that this chain of multiple devices can’t have another phone in it. The update enables WhatsApp users for the first time to use the service on up to four nonphone devices without having the registered phone switched on or otherwise connected to the internet.
On Wednesday, WhatsApp said it is rolling out a limited public beta test for its improved multidevice capability. WhatsApp is finally pushing an improvement to a key feature that even the Facebook-owned instant messaging service acknowledges has been a top request from users for years.
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