WhatsApp is finally bringing a highly requested feature to its messaging service. The company had promised earlier this year that it would remove the online connection requirement on your smartphone for the chatting platform to be used on multiple devices. Now, this feature is finally here.
Previously, users had to have a stable internet connection on their smartphones to be able to use the messaging service on any other device like a desktop PC, or a laptop. In other words, it had to be linked to your smartphone to have the conversations synced. But now, after several months of beta testing, the social media giant is finally letting users disable this requirement altogether on any linked device. So, you can now run WhatsApp without your phone being connected as well (Via PhoneArena).
Although, the company has limited the number of total devices that can be connected to WhatsApp at the same time to four at the moment. So, look out for the update as it should offer you a new feature under the “Linked devices” tab. After enabling this, WhatsApp will remove all previously connected devices and you will have to manually add them again. But now, these devices can run chats independently from your handset.
Notably, the feature is currently not working on tablets and there are also certain limitations on iPhones like not being able to delete a conversation on a connected device. For the sake of security, the company has added an auto disconnection feature on these connected devices, if WhatsApp is not run on your primary smartphone in 14 days.
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