PARIS, August 31 (Benin News/EP) –
WhatsApp is working on a new personal chat that will allow users to message each other within the app itself and even if they have different devices linked to their account.
Until now, users of the instant messaging application have had to resort to other solutions to be able to use this service as a notepad or to save messages and texts and have them at hand at all times. .
Some of the most common tricks include creating a group with another person and deleting it, then remaining the sole participant and administrator of the chat.
However, this option does not support multi-device functionality, as it is not supported when multiple devices are used. devices linked to a single WhatsApp accountthis chat only appears on the primary device.
However, WhatsApp has started to develop a new feature that will allow users to send messages to themselves without having to resort to these tricks, as advanced by the specialized portal WABetaInfo.
This portal discovered this feature in the beta version of WhatsApp for Desktop. Thus, in this update, the user’s phone number is presented as the first contact in the application’s address book.
Users will be able to access this feature from all devices linked to their account, be it the primary smartphone or handheld. all other devices on which this WhatsApp account has been linked.
This will be possible thanks to the new multi-device version that the company is currently working on and which should be available in the future for Android and iOS devices.
We tested multi-device 2.0 on WhatsApp beta for Android and iOS? Thanks to the updated version of multi-device (under development), you will be able to use WhatsApp on a secondary mobile device in the future. Follow @WABetaInfo for more information on WhatsApp? pic.twitter.com/GFJwKcQYAz
– WABetaInfo (@WABetaInfo) August 23, 2022
The ability to create a personal chat with your own phone number is still under development, and the official release date for both operating systems, as well as the WhatsApp Desktop version, is not yet known.
However, this option is already present in another instant messaging network, namely Telegram. More specifically, in the section “Saved Messages”.. Users can send messages to themselves as a note or reminder, as well as save all kinds of content seen or received in the app.