How to use WhatsApp on your tablet
With over two billion monthly active users, WhatsApp is the world’s most popular messaging app. The Facebook-owned app offers a simple and intuitive user interface, notable features, andhidden tips and tricks, making it a joy to use.
Until recently, WhatsApp lacked a dedicated app for tablets, making it inconvenient to use on a bigger screen. However, that has changed, and WhatsApp now offers an official app designed for yourfavorite Android tablet. You still need to use a browser to connect to WhatsApp on an iPad, but you can link your Android phone or iPhone to sync messages.
What is Linked Devices in WhatsApp?
The Linked Devices feature in WhatsApp allows you touse WhatsApp on five devices simultaneously, including your primary smartphone. It doesn’t require an internet connection on your primary smartphone. You can use WhatsApp on your phone and four linked devices, including tablets, laptops, Chromebooks, and desktop computers, via the app or WhatsApp Web.
Linked devices enjoy the same end-to-end encryption as the smartphone app, but WhatsApp logs out your linked tablet and computer if you don’t access WhatsApp on your phone for more than two weeks.
Linked devices don’t support live location viewing, broadcast lists, or status updates.
Use WhatsApp on your Android tablet using Linked Devices
The benefit of using the multi-device login is that your tablet WhatsApp app works independently of your phone app. That means you can receive and send messages from your tablet, even if your phone has no internet connection.
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When you link your WhatsApp account on an Android tablet, the app syncs up to two years of your most recent conversation history. If you want to search for old messages, use your primary phone. The Linked Devices feature contains many but not all functions found on WhatsApp for your phone.
Use WhatsApp Web on an iPad and Android tablet
If you don’t want to use the WhatsApp Android tablet app or use an iPad, you can access your chats on WhatsApp using the WhatsApp Web app. It works the same way asWhatsApp Web on a desktop.
Since the Safari browser allows you to place a specific web page on the homescreen, we recommend settings up WhatsApp Web with the default browser on an iPad.
Access your chats on Android
Get your messages on an iPhone
Create a shortcut for WhatsApp Web on the iPad homescreen
You don’t need to open Safari and navigate to WhatsApp web to check your recent messages. You can add a WhatsApp shortcut on the homescreen and glance over your conversations with a single tap.
Access your WhatsApp chats on a big screen
Since the new WhatsApp multi-device feature is now available for tablets, we hope Meta will allow users to sync the same WhatsApp account on two phones. Many people switch between two smartphones, and accessing chats on both devices would be more convenient.
Once you set up WhatsApp on your tablet, go through our guide to thebest WhatsApp privacy settingsto keep prying eyes away from your confidential conversations.
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