Michal Marek WhatsApp, the world's most popular messaging service, is rolling out an official desktop app for both Windows and OS X computers. The app arrives a few months after Facebook rolled out a web interface for WhatsApp, and about a month after it introduced end-to-end encryption to keep all communications secure billions of users of this service.
Like the web interface, the WhatsApp desktop application is dependent on the phone and practically just mirrors the content from it. Therefore, in order to be able to communicate on the computer, your phone must be nearby, which ensures communication. Logging in to the service is also done in the same way as on the website. A unique QR code will be displayed on your computer and you can gain access by opening the "WhatsApp Web" option in WhatsApp settings on your phone and scanning the code.
After that, you can communicate from your computer and use its convenient keyboard, among other things. What's also nice is that the application works completely natively, which brings with it benefits in the form of notifications on the desktop, support for keyboard shortcuts, and the like.
In addition, WhatsApp offers practically the same functions on a computer as it does on a phone. So you can easily record voice messages, enrich the text with emoticons and send files and photos. However, voice call support is currently missing on the computer.
You can download the desktop application for free at WhatsApp official website.
And it still doesn't work on the iPad without a jailbreak. I really don't understand this artificial limitation...
The web version of WhatsApp works on the iPad as long as you always keep the desktop version displayed.
I know about it, various third-party apps that use the web version work the same way. But I don't understand why the app is blocked on the iPad.
WhatsPad works perfectly on Ipad
Again, I don't understand why they made an application when it's the same as the WhatsApp website. I was hoping it would work on its own, but alas. Isn't it worth having my mobile phone connected to the computer all day if I need a message in the evening?
Could someone please show me a screenshot of where I can find the "WhatsApp Web" option in the app? Somehow I can't find it anywhere here. Thanks for the advice.
The last tab in the menu at the bottom of the "gear" settings and the third item from the top is WhatsApp Web
Ah, so I'm really missing something there :-/ And I have the latest version of the app 2.16.2 I'm using an iP 4 with iOS 7
on my iP 5 and current iOS it looks like this https://cloud.elisha.cz/index.php/s/f5l2jyd76cIKWMA
So this is something I'm missing in the setup. Thanks for the sample.
Maybe it's only for newer versions of iOS..?
https://www.whatsapp.com/download/
That's great, but I still have bad luck on the iPad.