WhatsApp is currently testing a new feature that will allow, for the first time, to send messages without using your phone.
Currently, WhatsApp is linked to the user’s phone. Its desktop and web applications need this device to be connected and receive messages.
But the new feature will allow users to send and receive messages “even if their phone’s battery is dead.”
Up to four other devices – like PCs and tablets – can be used together, WhatsApp said.
For starters, the new feature will be rolled out as a beta test for a “small group of users,” and the team plans to improve performance and add features before enabling it for everyone.
End-to-end encryption – a key selling point for WhatsApp – will still work under this new system, he says.
Several other messaging apps already have such a feature, including the competing encrypted app Signal, which requires a phone to register, but not to exchange messages.
But this feature has long been requested by WhatsApp users, numbering two billion.
Minute.bf with BBC
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