After the latest update to its policy and feature users will now be able to use the Whatsapp account on Multiple phones. Allowing them to manage and reply across devices easily.
This latest update will be very helpful for those who manage a business and use WhatsApp to communicate with customers or if you use more than one phone on a regular basis for any reason.
Using the same Whatsapp account on multiple phones
In a recent announcement, the Meta-owned messaging service is announcing that its multi-device feature — which previously allowed you to access and send messages from additional Android tablets, browsers, or computers alongside your primary phone — is expanding to support additional smartphones.
“One WhatsApp account, now across multiple phones” is how the service describes the feature, which it says is rolling out to everyone in the coming weeks.
Setting up a secondary phone to use with your WhatsApp account happens after doing a fresh install of the app.
Except, rather than entering your phone number during setup and logging in as usual. You would instead tap a new “link to existing account” option.
This will generate a QR code to be scanned by your primary WhatsApp phone. Via the “link a device” option in settings. The new feature works across both iOS and Android devices.
The addition of this new feature is probably targeting small businesses. That might want multiple employees to be able to send and receive messages.
But it should be useful for anyone who uses multiple smartphones on a regular basis. And wants them all to be associated with the same WhatsApp account.
The original phone that logged in to your account is considered the “primary” device, it doesn’t need to be turned on to receive messages across your other phones, Android tablets, or computers.
However, if your primary device is inactive for over 14 days, WhatsApp says it’ll log out of your other devices. You can also manually log out of linked devices from your primary phone.