Whatsapp has announced that whatsapp accounts will be use on multiple devices soon.
The new “view once” and “disappearing mode” features were also officially announced.
The news came in an interview between WABetaInfo and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and WhatsApp head Will Cathcart.
Cathcart said WhatsApp is developing an iPad, but said that multiple device feature will make WhatsApp on iPad a possibility.
With whatsapp about to be linked on multi-device, the CEO of the social media tech giant Zuckerberg also confirmed that WhatsApp is adding a new “view once” feature, which will allow users to send content that disappears after it’s been viewed.
The feature will also look at the disappearing messages side, which currently allows messages to be deleted after a set period of time.
The tech gaint said in the future in the future, a new “disappearing mode” will let you turn on disappearing messages across all chat threads.
Facebook’s CEO confirmed that the multi-device feature will still use the end-to-end encryption that WhatsApp offers.
The social media tech giant CEO Zuckerberg wrote. “It’s been a big technical challenge to get all your messages and content to sync properly across devices even when your phone battery dies, but we’ve solved this and we’re looking forward to getting it out soon!”
According to Cathcart the multi-device feature will be availalble in the public domain next month or two.
WABetaInfo posted that WhatsApp is working on a new password-protected encrypted chat backups feature which could finally allow users to transfer their chat histories between iOS and Android devices.
