Times of Islamabad

WhatsApp launches a new feature for its users

WhatsApp launches a new feature for its users

ISLAMABAD – The Facebook-owned messaging app, WhatsApp has been introducingall kinds of new features recently, and the latest one is that the companyis developing a new multi-platform system through which users will be ableto access their account on more than one device.

Right now the app only allows you to use your WhatsApp account fromWhatsApp Web, and even for that, you need to have your mobile phone onlineand connected to your PC or laptop through the QR code. The newmulti-platform system will give users the ability to remain active onmultiple devices at the same time without being attached to your phone.

The new multi-platform option will operate alongside with WhatsApp’sUniversal Windows Platform (UWP) app, which is also in its developmentstage. With the development of this platform, users will be able to connector login to WhatsApp Web on PC even if their mobile phone (Android or iOS)is offline.

WhatsApp Web at the moment only supports a chat interface and it does notinclude the voice or video call feature. However, with the introduction ofa new multi-platform feature, the Web portal will offer much more feature.Not much is known about this new interface the messaging giant is workingon, so we are not sure what it will look like, but the functionalities willdefinitely be better.