WhatsApp on multiple phones feature added
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WhatsApp on multiple phones feature added
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#3With your data and metadata still flowing through Meta. No thanks.
Multi-phone is a nice feature though, it's something I like about Telegram, Wire, and Session. It would be nice if Signal had this feature but I would prefer accounts without a telephone number or email address (like Session) first.
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#4For some reason, certainly not technical, they are still not allowing multiple numbers on the same device, with the same ease I can switch accounts on instagram, for example.
(web vs app workaround are clearly not the right way to go)
And, honestly, if bots and spam is what they were really worried about, allowing "two numbers" instead of just one would already be plenty for 99.999% of people that would gladly avoid carrying to devices (typically, personal and work)
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#5Still far from Telegram's usability. You can run it anywhere.
Even bind it to a liburple plugin with TDlib. Or an SSH server with
nchat.
Thus, you can use it from Bitlbee under a Raspberry Pi with a Pentium era potato connected to it using BitchX/Mirc or even Amiga/Atari/Classic Macs with any IRC client.
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#6Does this mean that you can link multiple phone numbers to the same Whatsapp account and use it across multiple devices?
Re: WhatsApp on multiple phones feature added
#7For some reason, certainly not technical, they are still not allowing multiple numbers on the same device, with the same ease I can switch accounts on instagram, for example. (web vs app workaround are clearly not the right way to go) And, honestly, if bots and spam is what they were really worried about, allowing "two numbers" instead of just one would already be plenty for 99.999% of people that would gladly avoid…
Workaround I've been using for a while: You can install both the "regular" WhatsApp and the "Business" version, those are separate apps in the App Stores. This way you can set up your personal number on the regular WhatsApp and your work number on WhatsApp for Business.
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#8For some reason, certainly not technical, they are still not allowing multiple numbers on the same device, with the same ease I can switch accounts on instagram, for example. (web vs app workaround are clearly not the right way to go) And, honestly, if bots and spam is what they were really worried about, allowing "two numbers" instead of just one would already be plenty for 99.999% of people that would gladly avoid…
In my phone I can go to Settings->Apps->Dual Apps and enable WhatsApp. This creates a clone of the app, which can be registered with a second number. When you open WhattsApp you can select which of the two you want to open. Have been using this for probably 2+ years now...
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#9I use Whatsapp Web[0] to link my desktop computer to Whatsapp. I like being able to do that, since I can type better on my desktop, instead of my phone. I'm really bad at typing long-form things on my phone.
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#10I wonder if it took so long because of how difficult pluralising-after-the-fact is [1]. For example, I imagine all client apps keep a list of contacts and a one-to-one public key for each contact (rather than one-to-many).