WhatsApp Web Will Soon Work Without Your Phone

Mar. 20, 2021

One of the major inconveniences while using WhatsApp Web is that you need to keep your phone connected to the internet. To avoid this hassle, WhatsApp has been working onmulti-device supportfor some time now. The messaging giant is now preparing a beta testing program for WhatsApp Web. The testing program, which will soon be available to Android and iOS users running beta versions of WhatsApp, willallow users to test the possibility of using WhatsApp Web without keeping their phones connected to the internet.

According toWABetaInfo,you can link up to four desktop devicesif you participate in the beta program. It is worth keeping in mind that other WhatsApp users should update their app if you want to chat with them. Furthermore, the report says that you can make calls if the person is using a recent version of WhatsApp.

At this moment, the WhatsApp Web beta program is not available to all WhatsApp beta users. That said, we could expect the company to expand the beta program to all testers in the foreseeable future, hopefully in the coming weeks. The testing program is said to be available for both WhatsApp and WhatsApp Business apps.

Subin writes about consumer tech, software, and security. He secretly misses the headphone jack while pretending he’s better off with the wireless freedom.