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WhatsApp to Roll Out Multi-Device Support, Hints at Future iPad App

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In an interview with WABetaInfo, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg confirmed that the popular messaging app will soon be rolling out multi-device capability, allowing users to use their WhatsApp account on up to four different linked devices even when their main smartphone is not connected to the internet.

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According to Zuckerberg, Facebook has faced "a big technical challenge" in getting "all your messages and content to sync properly across devices even when your phone battery dies." However, Zuckerberg says that Facebook, which owns WhatsApp, has found "an elegant" solution to the issue and that "it'll be the best solution out there." In addition, WhatsApp head Will Cathcart says that multi-device support will be rolling out in a public beta.

Specifically targeting the prospect of a future native iPad app for WhatsApp, Cathcart says that the company would "love to support" the iPad and hints that the roll-out of multi-device support will "make it possible for us to build things like that."

Other features confirmed to be coming soon to WhatsApp include "disappearing mode," which will turn on disappearing messages for all chat threads, making users WhatsApp accounts "ephemeral," according to Zuckerberg. Additionally, Zuckerberg confirmed that WhatsApp will soon roll out "view once" mode for photos and videos, where similar to Snapchat and Instagram, users will only be able to view received content once.

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Nope, I don't want it on my iPad, MBP and Mac Mini, one single device, my iPhone, is already enough.

I still get the dialogue window to accept the new terms, luckily WA won't limit its features anymore, they changed this a couple of says ago.
 
Mark should deal with these technical challenges himself. I'm pretty sure he would do a better job than being CEO.
 
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If whatstrash thinks it’s going on my iPad, think again.

Multiple device support, no chance 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
 
cupcakes2000 said:
Why can signal have an iPad app and a phone app and a macos app, and it all syncs nicely, but whatsapp can’t seem to manage the iPad part.
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Seems like the larger a company gets, the more time they take to get to market and also the more willing they are to accept defeat. My reasoning is that competing priorities segment the company into production versions versus way too many unreleased stabs in the dark. Then you have the whole layer where you get these more entrenched support roles that really serve to inhibit the otherwise agile nature of product releases. And fear, plain fear, of not getting something right and it being too late to fix and too catastrophic to recover from.

I couldn’t believe Twitter had started to bail on the iPad so early on, Uber cut out its Apple Watch app despite being one of the first ones to make headlines, Evernote stagnated for a comically long time despite its valuation. Definitely sometimes begs the question: “you have all these engineers and designers who do nothing but build your ONE core app. WTF are they doing with their days?” The iPad app counterpart should be expected for prevalent apps. It’s inexcusable to not have an iPad app unless it makes utterly no sense. It can often use 95% of the same logic the iOS app does, and Apple has made the development of one as easy as it may ever be.

It takes a lot of time for a market to develop too, and sometimes Big Tech can seem really impatient. The HomePod being discontinued after such a short time is another example of way too fast. It went away just as fast as the iPod HiFi! When’s the last time you can remember Apple having a mini-branded product without the regular size? I can’t even think back to when this was the case, even temporarily. The closest was the iPod nano predominance to the then newly-branded iPod classic.
 
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justperry said:
Non sense, it's encrypted.
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But Perry, we can't drop dank memes if we only rely on facts.
LFC2020 said:
If whatstrash thinks it’s going on my iPad, think again.

Multiple device support, no chance 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
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LFC2020 said:
Do you really believe a company like scumbook?
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Of course @justperry doesn't believe. He'd much rather believe some internet rando who uses juvenile terminology like whatstrash and scumbook. ;)
Facebook's data vacuum is infamously prodigious. We all know it. Doesn't mean we have to resort to petty epithets.
 
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In Europe we’ ll get the iPad app , but my guess is that we’ ll also have to accept the “new” term of privacy for it to work.
My guess is they waited that long, because of the new privacy rules in Europe. And now they are giving “extra “ functionality to persuade us to accept the terms.
 
LFC2020 said:
I don’t believe anything that comes out of mark zuckerberg mouth and his trash company scumbook
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As I told you before, I hate Facebook, that does not mean they lie about this one, if they did and we would find out all hell will break loose.
Pretty sure they would get the biggest fine ever from the EU, I actually think they already should have been fined multiple times.
 
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ValO said:
In Europe we’ ll get the iPad app , but my guess is that we’ ll also have to accept the “new” term of privacy for it to work.
My guess is they waited that long, because of the new privacy rules in Europe. And now they are giving “extra “ functionality to persuade us to accept the terms.
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Bold: Nope, just a few days ago they said they are not going to limit functionality if you don't accept the new terms.

WhatsApp reverses course, now won’t limit functionality if you don’t accept its new privacy policy
 
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justperry said:
It's encrypted...period.

I hate Facebook, I also hate the fact that I have to use WhatsApp, started using it before Facebook bought them, hopefully they will have to break up.
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Oh yeah, a vault where you and the vault company having access to its keys. That’s how WhatsApp encryption works. I seriously doubt Facebook can’t just decrypt your data in the backend.
 
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