WhatsApp will quickly allow you to use the favored prompt messaging app concurrently on a number of gadgets, Facebook chief government Mark Zuckerberg mentioned. The prompt messaging app, utilized by over 2 billion customers, additionally plans so as to add extra choices to its disappearing messages characteristic, high executives mentioned.
Zuckerberg confirmed to information outlet WaBetaInfo that multi-device help will likely be arriving on the moment messaging service “soon.” WhatsApp head Will Cathcart mentioned customers will have the ability to join as much as 4 gadgets to at least one account. The messaging agency can be working to introduce a devoted WhatsApp app for the iPad, he mentioned.
“It’s been a big technical challenge to get all your messages and content to sync properly across devices even when your phone battery dies, but we’ve solved this and we’re looking forward to getting it out soon!” Zuckerberg mentioned.
The prompt messaging service, which final yr launched the power to set a seven-day timer on messages (disappearing mode), is now planning to develop this characteristic to let customers share footage and movies that may solely be considered as soon as. “We’re also about to start rolling out ‘view once,’ so you can send content and have it disappear after the person sees it,” Zuckerberg mentioned.
WhatsApp customers will even get an choice to implement disappearing mode throughout the app for all new chats.
Zuckerberg and Cathcart advised the information outlet — and it’s certainly the 2 of them speaking — that these options will likely be obtainable to customers in public beta “in the next month or two.”
