WhatsApp will finally be able to use it without a smartphone

Every user of WhatsApp has already known this terrible situation: your phone battery has run out and it is impossible to continue using WhatsApp from a laptop. Fortunately, updating the platform should make the desktop application more independent. Soon he will only be able to use it on this support, without your smartphone interfering in the process.

On Wednesday, July 14, 2021, the Galaxy Facebook member company announced a first phase of testing on a limited number of users. Those lucky ones will then be able to use WhatsApp on a maximum of four devices other than phones. The company has made changes to the architecture of WhatsApp, but it still relies on the Signal protocol, which the company invented, and the app of the same name.

As of July 14, 2021, a user can own multiple devices, each with their own set of encryption keys.Explain the company. If device encryption keys are compromised, the attacker cannot use them to decrypt messages sent to other devices, even devices registered to the same user. WhatsApp also uses end-to-end encryption for the history of messages transferred between devices when a user registers a new device.”

Concretely, the data will no longer need to go through a smartphone so that it can be accessed from another device. The trial is currently underway with a small group of WhatsApp beta users. “We will continue to improve performance and add some additional features before gradually rolling it out more widely.”, pointing to Communication company.