WhatsApp could soon have an iPad app for the first time | Engadget

It's a part of the multiplied multi-tool help WhatsApp is implementing.

Part of WhatsApp's cease-to-cease encryption scheme is a demand for customers to installation the provider with a telecellsmartphone as the "main" tool for an account. The organization introduced in July that it became operating on next-technology encryption that might allow a real multi-tool connection with out requiring a connection to a phone. As a part of that, it seems like WhatsApp is making plans a completely local iPad app fro the primary time.

WhatsApp app is visible on a phone on this instance taken, July 13, 2021. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration

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Part of WhatsApp's cease-to-cease encryption scheme is a demand for customers to installation the provider with a telecellsmartphone as the "main" tool for an account. The organization introduced in July that it became operating on next-technology encryption that might allow a real multi-tool connection with out requiring a connection to a phone. As a part of that, it seems like WhatsApp is making plans a completely local iPad app fro the primary time.

AppleInsider observed some tweets this weekend from the WABetaInfo account, an unofficial supply of information about upcoming WhatsApp features. The account says that as a part of the imminent multi-tool beta, each the iPad and Android pills might be capable of be used as "connected devices" to a WhatsApp account for the primary time. A follow-up tweet claims that it will likely be a local app (instead of an internet app) and that it's going to paintings "independently" (as in it's going to run in case your phone is offline). 

There's no phrase on while this app and integration will arrive; the WABetaInfo account says it is beneathneath improvement and may be launched in a "destiny update." But in case you have already got the WhatsApp for iOS beta, you will get get admission to to the iPad model as well. On the only hand, masses of humans who have been the use of WhatsApp for years have in all likelihood gotten used to the app now no longer being to be had on pills — however multi-tool help looks like the suitable time to make WhatsApp paintings on extra devices.