New functions related to privacy and the possibility of an iPad version were on the menu a discussion between the manager of the WABetaInfo site, the boss of WhatsApp Will Cathcart and his own boss Mark Zuckerberg.
Specialized in the discovery of functions still hidden or in beta in WhatsApp, WABetaInfo was able to be confirmed at the best source the arrival soon of a handful of new features.
One of them will allow you to use your WhatsApp account on several devices – up to 4 different ones – without having to be connected to a smartphone connected to the internet. Currently you can use WhatsApp on your Mac for example, but the macOS app is dependent on an active internet connection on the iPhone which provides the main link. And there can only be one such active link at a time.
According to Zuckerberg, the site to operate in multi-device was not easy but this possibility will arrive soon. Will Cathcart specifies that a version for iPad therefore becomes possible and he shows himself to be fairly ready. This development is not, however, formally confirmed.
Other expected improvements relate to message retention. We can already decide that the exchanges in a group must be ephemeral and disappear automatically after 7 days.
An option to make this the default setting applicable to all groups will be added. Another option will ensure that when a content (image or video for example) has been seen once by the recipient, it is erased immediately. What Snapchat offered from its inception.
But that will not prevent, as with the previous setting, that we can take screenshots before the content self-destructs. It’s better, but not yet a panacea.
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