
Add or Remove group participants, change group subject and set a group icon.
Group Chat: Enjoy group conversations with your contacts. Multimedia: Send Video, Images, and Voice notes to your friends and contacts. Send a million messages a day to your friends for free! WhatsApp uses your Internet connection: 3G/EDGE or Wi-Fi when available. No hidden costs: Once you and your friends download the application, you can use it to chat as much as you want. WhatsApp is also available for Android, Windows desktop, and macOS desktop clients. In addition to basic messaging WhatsApp users can create groups, send each other unlimited images, video and audio media messages. Lastly, given that the feature is still in beta, WhatsApp cautions that the performance and quality of its service may be affected, although happily, users can leave the beta at any time.WhatsApp is a cross-platform messaging service that uses the same internet data plan you use for email and web browsing, there is no cost to message and stay in touch with your friends. If you don't use your phone for over 14 days, your linked devices will be disconnected. Personal calls and messages remain end-to-end encrypted across devices. It's also worth noting that you can't message or call from web, desktop, or Portal to users who have an outdated version of WhatsApp on their phone, and you can only have one phone connected to your WhatsApp account at one time. On your Mac, launch the WhatsApp app or go to in a web browser, then scan the QR code that appears using your iPhone.Īfter following these steps your device will be linked, and you'll be able to access WhatsApp on your Mac to send and receive messages and view chat threads, without needing to rely on a phone connected to the internet.īear in mind that it's not currently possible to delete messages or conversation threads from a linked device.
Tap Back and select Link a Device on the previous screen. Tap Multi-Device Beta, then tap the blue Join Beta button. The following steps show you how to link your WhatsApp account to your Mac using the service's new Multi-Device support, currently in beta.
While that initial link is still required, the connected phone that has the WhatsApp app on it is no longer required once the link has been made. Previously, the WhatsApp mobile app was required to authenticate an account used on another device, such as a computer, and used a QR code to link a user account to a web browser or desktop app. WhatsApp has rolled out multi-device support to all users on iOS and Android, allowing WhatsApp to be used on up to four linked devices without users needing to be connected via a smartphone.