Andrew Bonwick
Vice President of Product Development at Relm Insurance
Madhav Sheth
CEO of Ai+ Smartphone
Stephen Rose
CEO Render Networks


WhatsApp is now extending the ‘Multi-Device’ feature support for testing to multiple users, which include the ‘non-beta’ users as well. Until now, the feature was under testing and was extended to the beta-users. But now the company is also involving the ‘non-beta’ users for the testing process, which means the rollout of the feature might be very near. For the unaware, the WhatsApp Multi-Device feature will allow the user to run his/her WhatsApp account on four different devices simultaneously.
WhatsApp Multi-Device Feature to Allow Users to Use WhatsApp in Four Devices
Note that the four devices can only be ‘non-smartphone’ devices such as laptops and computers. Right now, if the user is logged into his/her WhatsApp account on one computer, he/she can’t access it in another one without logging out from the first computer.
But this will change once the support for the ‘Multi-Device’ feature is rolled out completely by the Facebook-owned texting application. A report from WABetaInfo suggests that WhatsApp will now be involving the ‘non-beta’ users in its testing process, which means the feature might be rolled out very soon.
The feature was first announced back in July. In a short period, the company must have tested it rigorously to allow non-beta users to be involved as well. One of the biggest advantages of this feature would be that once you have logged into your WhatsApp account on a computer, you will be able to access it regardless of your smartphone, which has the primary WhatsApp account being present.