Signal also doesn't offer cloud backups of your texts, keeping your messages located on the devices themselves. Signal, whose encryption protocol WhatsApp uses, offers multidevice texting through apps on mobile, desktop and iPad, but doesn't currently support a web version for platforms where it doesn't make an app. Now can every texting service copy this, please?Īs I mentioned before, WhatsApp's version of multidevice isn't particularly new, but there is a lot of room for other texting apps to improve their services in this cross-platform direction. I'm aware of third-party Apple Watch apps in the App Store that unofficially integrate with WhatsApp, but I would be wary about providing an additional party access to that. I do find it easy enough to use WhatsApp from an Apple Watch by replying to notifications, but you can't start new messages with this method. It's easy enough to remove linked devices from your settings, but it's worthwhile that some device management could come up faster than you'd expect.Īlso for now, smartwatches aren't able to be a linked device, nor is WhatsApp offering an Apple Watch app.

If you clear your cache on your web browser, and then log in again to WhatsApp on that web browser, it will also come up as a new linked device. Should you use the WhatsApp desktop app and WhatsApp for web on the same computer, WhatsApp will see that as two devices. I also found that one could inadvertently fill up their linked device limit quickly.

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