WhatsApp for Home windows and Mac are extensions of the WhatsApp account in your telephone. The messages you ship and obtain are synced between your telephone and laptop, and you may see your messages throughout all units.
Can I take advantage of WhatsApp on my laptop and telephone on the identical time?
Sure. WhatsApp net and desktop functions are extensions of the WhatsApp account in your telephone. The messages you ship and obtain are synced, and you may see your messages on all units seamlessly. You need to use as much as 4 linked units and one telephone at a time.
Why use WhatsApp on PC/Mac?
Utilizing WhatsApp on a desktop laptop is helpful for a wide range of causes. The power to have a bigger display for messaging, the flexibility to multitask whereas nonetheless having the ability to message on WhatsApp, and the flexibility to ship and obtain messages even when your telephone will not be close by are a number of the key advantages. Moreover, it may be extra handy to kind on a bodily keyboard reasonably than a small contact display.
What occurs if my telephone is offline?
You solely want your telephone to be on-line if you register WhatsApp for the primary time or pair new units. After signing up, your telephone would not want to remain on-line to make use of WhatsApp on linked units, however your linked units will go offline should you do not use your telephone for greater than 14 days.
Can I make video calls utilizing WhatsApp Desktop?
Sure, you may make free voice and video calls on WhatsApp desktop utilizing your laptop computer/PC webcam.
Is WhatsApp safe?
WhatsApp gives end-to-end encryption as a default for all non-public communication, this consists of messages and calls, group and one-on-one chats in addition to any photographs or recordsdata you ship.
Nonetheless, WhatsApp is owned by Fb which makes many surprise about privateness. Extra security-conscious customers typically favor to make use of Sign or Telegram for sharing private or delicate info.
You need to use as much as 4 linked units and one telephone at a time. Every linked gadget connects to WhatsApp independently whereas sustaining the identical stage of privateness and safety by way of end-to-end encryption.
Your telephone would not want to remain on-line to make use of WhatsApp on linked units, however your linked units shall be logged out should you do not use your telephone for over 14 days.
WhatsApp is obtainable for Android and iPhone / iOS.
Options
Maintain the Dialog Going
- With WhatsApp Desktop, you possibly can seamlessly sync your entire chats to your laptop so to chat on no matter gadget is most handy for you.
Safety by Default
- A few of your most private moments are shared on WhatsApp, which is why we constructed end-to-end encryption into the most recent variations of our app. When end-to-end encrypted, your messages and calls are secured so solely you and the particular person you are speaking with can learn or hearken to them, and no person in between, not even WhatsApp.
Desktop calling
- You can also make free voice and video calls to your contacts on WhatsApp Desktop you probably have the app put in in your laptop.
What’s New
Sooner speeds and improved calling for WhatsApp Desktop
WhatsApp began as a cell app and people roots stay as sturdy as ever. However with tons of of tens of millions of individuals utilizing WhatsApp on computer systems and tablets, we’re centered on making the messaging and calling expertise throughout units even higher.
At the moment, we’re introducing a model new WhatsApp app for Home windows, accessible to obtain right here.
The brand new Home windows desktop app masses sooner and is constructed with an interface acquainted to WhatsApp and Home windows customers. You’ll be able to host group video calls with as much as 8 individuals and audio calls with as much as 32 individuals. We’ll proceed to extend these limits over time so you possibly can all the time keep related with associates, household and work colleagues.
WhatsApp is the most important platform to offer a completely end-to-end encrypted expertise that permits cross-platform communication between cellphones, computer systems, tablets and extra. Because of this your private messages, media, and calls are all the time end-to-end encrypted throughout all of your units.
Since introducing new multi-device capabilities, we have listened to suggestions and made enhancements together with sooner gadget linking and higher syncing throughout units, in addition to new options similar to hyperlink previews and stickers.
As we proceed to extend the variety of units which help WhatsApp, we have simply launched a brand new WhatsApp beta expertise for Android tablets. We’re additionally launching a brand new, sooner app for Mac desktops that’s at present within the early levels of beta.
We look ahead to bringing WhatsApp to much more units sooner or later.
Earlier launch notes
Final 12 months, we rolled out Communities, to assist individuals get probably the most out of their teams on WhatsApp. Since launching, we have wished to construct much more instruments for admins and customers alike. At the moment we’re excited to roll out a couple of new adjustments we have made to make teams extra manageable for admins and simpler to navigate for everybody.
New controls for admins
As extra individuals be a part of communities, we need to give group admins extra management over their group privateness, so we have constructed a easy instrument that provides admins the flexibility to determine who is ready to be a part of a bunch.When an admin chooses to share their group’s invite hyperlink, or make their group joinable in a neighborhood, they now have extra management over who can be a part of. Teams are the place individuals have a few of their most intimate conversations and it is vital that admins are in a position to simply determine who can and can’t are available.
Simply see teams in frequent
With the expansion of Communities and their bigger teams, we need to make it straightforward to know which teams you may have in frequent with somebody. Whether or not you are making an attempt to recollect the title of a bunch you understand you share with somebody otherwise you need to see the teams you are each in, now you can simply search a contact’s title to see your teams in frequent.
These options will begin rolling out globally over the approaching weeks, as we proceed to construct new instruments to make teams the most effective expertise for admins and members alike.
New Methods to Get pleasure from WhatsApp Standing
Standing is a well-liked method to share ephemeral updates with associates and shut contacts on WhatsApp. They disappear in 24 hours and will embody photographs, movies, GIFs, textual content, and extra. Similar to your private chats and calls, your WhatsApp standing is protected by end-to-end encryption so you possibly can share privately and securely.
We’re excited so as to add a set of latest options to standing on WhatsApp that make it simpler to precise your self and join with others.
Non-public Viewers Selector
Each standing you share might not all the time be proper for your entire contacts. We’re offering you with the pliability to replace your privateness settings per standing so you possibly can select who views your standing every time you replace it. Your most up-to-date viewers choice shall be saved and used because the default in your subsequent standing.
Voice Standing
We’re introducing the flexibility to document and share voice messages as much as 30 seconds on WhatsApp standing. Voice standing can be utilized for sending extra private updates, particularly should you really feel extra comfy expressing your self by speaking reasonably than typing.
Standing Reactions
We’re including standing reactions to offer a fast and straightforward approach to reply to standing updates from your folks and shut contacts. This was the #1 function customers wished, following the launch of Reactions final 12 months. Now you can shortly reply to any standing by swiping up and tapping on one among eight emojis. You’ll be able to in fact nonetheless reply to a standing with textual content, voice message, stickers and extra.
Standing Profile Rings for New Updates
With the brand new standing profile ring you may by no means miss a standing from a beloved one. This ring shall be current round your contact’s profile image each time they share a standing replace. It is going to be seen within the chat lists, group participant lists, and call information.
Hyperlink Previews on Standing
Now if you submit a hyperlink in your standing, you may mechanically see a visible preview of the hyperlink content material, identical to if you ship a message. Visible previews make your statuses look higher, and in addition give your contacts a greater thought of what the hyperlink is earlier than they click on.
These updates have began rolling out to customers globally and shall be accessible to everybody within the coming weeks. We look ahead to individuals having fun with these new standing options quickly.
Earlier launch notes
WhatsApp launches it native app for macOS (beta)
Benefits of native apps:
- Elevated reliability and pace
- Designed and optimized in your desktop working system
- Proceed to obtain notifications and messages even when your telephone is offline
Earlier launch notes
To assist, at this time we’re launching proxy help for WhatsApp customers everywhere in the world. What this implies is we’re placing the ability into individuals’s palms to keep up entry to WhatsApp if their connection is blocked or disrupted.
Selecting a proxy permits you to connect with WhatsApp by way of servers arrange by volunteers and organizations world wide devoted to serving to individuals talk freely. If in case you have the flexibility to assist others join, you possibly can discover ways to arrange a proxy right here.
Connecting by way of proxy maintains the excessive stage of privateness and safety that WhatsApp supplies. Your private messages will nonetheless be protected by end-to-end encryption — making certain they keep between you and the particular person you are speaking with and are usually not seen to anybody in between, not the proxy servers, WhatsApp, or Meta.
Our want for 2023 is that these web shutdowns by no means happen. Disruptions like we have seen in Iran for months on finish deny individuals’s human rights and lower individuals off from receiving pressing assist. Although in case these shutdowns proceed, we hope this answer helps individuals wherever there’s a want for safe and dependable communication.
This selection is now accessible within the settings menu for everybody operating the most recent model of our app. Extra details about the right way to use this function is right here.
Improved Calling on WhatsApp
Whereas WhatsApp is finest recognized for bringing non-public and safe messaging to customers internationally, an increasing number of individuals are utilizing WhatsApp as a method to join with voice and video calls. That is why over the course of this 12 months we have launched a number of enhancements to calling on WhatsApp, for catching up together with your family members, colleagues and communities securely.
We have launched new options for higher connecting as a bunch on calls:
- 32 particular person calls: Similar to with voice calls, now you can do video calls in your cell with as much as 32 individuals, 4 instances the variety of individuals than earlier than
- Message or mute name contributors: Lengthy urgent on a participant will enlarge the video or audio feed and can help you both mute or message them individually whereas maintaining the calls going
- Name hyperlinks: Whether or not making a final minute name or planning forward, you possibly can simply invite individuals to a bunch name by sharing a name hyperlink
We have additionally made design adjustments for a extra seamless calling expertise:
- Colourful waveforms: Now you possibly can simply see who’s talking if their digicam is off
- In-call banner notifications: See when somebody new joins a bunch name
- Image in Image on iOS: Now in beta testing and rolling out within the new 12 months, simply multitask whereas on a name because of a minimized in-call video display
As all the time, all calls on WhatsApp are end-to-end encrypted by default to guard individuals’s privateness and security.
We’ll hold making enhancements subsequent 12 months as we proceed supporting prime quality, non-public calling on WhatsApp wherever you’re on the earth.
Discover, Message, and Purchase on WhatsApp
At the moment we’re sharing an replace on what we’re constructing to assist individuals discover, message, and purchase one thing from a enterprise on WhatsApp. Our workforce is in Brazil at this time the place we’re discussing our imaginative and prescient for bringing the complete purchasing expertise on to a WhatsApp chat.
Discover a enterprise
Individuals need a handy method to shortly get help from the tens of millions of small companies and tens of hundreds of manufacturers already on WhatsApp. At the moment we’re launching the flexibility to discover a enterprise proper on WhatsApp so individuals can now browse companies by class – similar to journey or banking – or search by the enterprise title. This may save individuals from having to seek out telephone numbers off web sites or kind a quantity into their contacts.
We have constructed enterprise search in a approach that preserves individuals’s privateness. What you seek for is processed in a approach that can’t be linked again to your account. To begin, we’re bringing the flexibility to seek for a enterprise to Brazil, Colombia, Indonesia, Mexico, and the UK the place individuals can discover firms utilizing our WhatsApp Enterprise Platform. In Brazil, search will assist individuals discover small companies as nicely.
Message
As extra companies use WhatsApp, our first precept stays maintaining individuals in command of their conversations. Getting this proper is vital for WhatsApp simply as a lot as for the individuals and companies that depend on us. A number of the latest companies which have joined WhatsApp are serving to individuals open a checking account, buy their metro ticket and order groceries.
Purchase
Finally we would like individuals to have the ability to make a safe fee proper from a chat with their credit score or debit card. We just lately launched this expertise in India and we’re excited to now be testing this in Brazil with a number of fee companions. This seamless checkout expertise shall be a game-changer for individuals and companies seeking to purchase and promote on WhatsApp with out having to go to an internet site, open one other app or pay in particular person.
These new experiences are a part of making WhatsApp one of the best ways for individuals to attach with their favourite companies. We look ahead to your suggestions.
Earlier launch notes
Benefits of native apps:
- Elevated reliability and pace
- Designed and optimized in your desktop working system
- Proceed to obtain notifications and messages even when your telephone is offline
Mac customers
- WhatsApp desktop app native to Mac working methods is at present in improvement.
- For early entry and to assist us with testing, you possibly can obtain the beta program right here.
- As a Mac person, you should utilize WhatsApp Net in your browser or obtain the web-based WhatsApp Desktop app.
Learn extra in regards to the WhatsApp desktop app for Home windows right here.
Earlier launch notes:
WhatsApp has simply now prolonged the time you need to delete your messages out of your chats after you hit ship to 2 days 12 hours. The have additionally improved privateness by including extra choices to cover your on-line standing, block screenshots for view as soon as messages and now you possibly can quietly go away teams with out different contributors realizing.
Earlier launch notes
- Updates to messages reactions together with the flexibility to react with any emoji plus extra enhancements and fixes.
- Elevated the group participant restrict to 512
- Elevated max file measurement restrict to 2GB
- On group calls, you possibly can mute others or message them by lengthy urgent on their tile
Reactions, 2GB File Sharing, 512 Teams
As we introduced final month with our imaginative and prescient for Communities on WhatsApp, we’re now constructing for organizations, companies, and different close-knit teams to speak securely and get issues achieved on WhatsApp. The suggestions we have obtained up to now has been very constructive and we will not wait to get many new options into individuals’s palms.
We’re excited to share that emoji reactions at the moment are accessible on the most recent model of the app. Reactions are enjoyable, quick, and so they scale back overload in teams too. We’ll proceed bettering them by including an excellent broader vary of expressions sooner or later.
As well as, now you can ship recordsdata inside WhatsApp as much as 2GB in measurement at a time, protected by end-to-end encryption. This is a rise from the earlier restrict of 100MB and we predict shall be useful for collaboration amongst small companies and college teams. We suggest utilizing WiFi for bigger recordsdata and we’ll show a counter whereas importing or downloading to let you understand how lengthy your switch will take.
One of many prime requests we have constantly obtained is the choice so as to add extra individuals to a chat, so now we’re slowly rolling out the flexibility so as to add as much as 512 individuals to a bunch. Constructing non-public, secure, and safe communities takes work and we predict this collection of enhancements will assist individuals and teams keep shut to 1 one other.
We hope individuals get pleasure from these updates and look ahead to sharing extra all year long.
WhatsApp desktop app not requires your telephone to be on-line
We’re excited to announce that non-public and safe one-to-one voice and video calls at the moment are accessible on WhatsApp’s desktop app.
All through the final 12 months we have seen important will increase in individuals calling each other on WhatsApp, typically for lengthy conversations. Final New 12 months’s Eve, we broke the document for probably the most calls ever made in a single day with 1.4 billion voice and video calls. With so many individuals nonetheless aside from their family members, and adjusting to new methods of working, we would like conversations on WhatsApp to really feel as near in-person as potential, no matter the place you’re on the earth or the tech you are utilizing.
Answering on a much bigger display makes it simpler to work with colleagues, see your loved ones extra clearly on a much bigger canvas, or release your palms to maneuver round a room whereas speaking. To make desktop calling extra helpful, we made positive it really works seamlessly for each portrait and panorama orientation, seems in a resizable standalone window in your laptop display, and is about to be all the time on prime so that you by no means lose your video chats in a browser tab or stack of open home windows.
Voice and video calls on WhatsApp are end-to-end encrypted, so WhatsApp cannot hear or see them, whether or not you name out of your telephone or your laptop. We’re beginning with one-to-one calls on the WhatsApp desktop app so we ensure that we can provide you a dependable and high-quality expertise. We shall be increasing this function to incorporate group voice and video calls sooner or later.
You can also make free voice and video calls to your contacts on WhatsApp Desktop you probably have the app put in in your laptop.
Desktop calling is supported on:
- Home windows 10 64-bit model 1903 and newer
- macOS 10.13 and newer
To make or obtain calls on WhatsApp Desktop, you may want:
- An audio output gadget and microphone for voice and video calls.
- A digicam for video calls.
- An lively web connection in your laptop and telephone. The decision will not undergo your telephone, however it must be on-line to ascertain the decision.
- To grant WhatsApp permission to entry your laptop’s microphone and digicam. WhatsApp wants entry to your laptop’s microphone for calls and digicam for video calls.
Notice: Group calls aren’t supported on WhatsApp Desktop right now.
Earlier launch notes:
We have heard from so many individuals how a lot confusion there may be round our latest replace. There’s been a number of misinformation inflicting concern and we need to assist everybody perceive our rules and the information.
WhatsApp was constructed on a easy thought: what you share together with your family and friends stays between you. This implies we’ll all the time shield your private conversations with end-to-end encryption, in order that neither WhatsApp nor Fb can see these non-public messages. It is why we do not hold logs of who everybody’s messaging or calling. We can also’t see your shared location and we do not share your contacts with Fb.
With these updates, none of that’s altering. As an alternative, the replace consists of new choices individuals must message a enterprise on WhatsApp, and supplies additional transparency about how we gather and use information. Whereas not everybody outlets with a enterprise on WhatsApp at this time, we predict that extra individuals will select to take action sooner or later and it is vital individuals are conscious of those companies. This replace doesn’t develop our skill to share information with Fb.
We’re now transferring again the date on which individuals shall be requested to assessment and settle for the phrases. Nobody could have their account suspended or deleted on February 8. We’re additionally going to do much more to clear up the misinformation round how privateness and safety works on WhatsApp. We’ll then go to individuals step by step to assessment the coverage at their very own tempo earlier than new enterprise choices can be found on Could 15.
WhatsApp helped convey end-to-end encryption to individuals internationally and we’re dedicated to defending this safety expertise now and sooner or later. Thanks to everybody who has reached out to us and to so many who’ve helped unfold information and cease rumors. We’ll proceed to place every thing we’ve into making WhatsApp one of the best ways to speak privately.