In its latest Android beta, the messaging app is testing a feature to use two WhatsApp accounts simultaneously.
You will soon be able to use your different WhatsApp accounts on the same smartphone, in a single application. In any case, this is what the messaging application seems to be working on. WABetaInfo, always very well informed when it comes to WhatsApp, has indeed discovered in the latest beta of the WhatsApp Business application on Android, an option allowing the use of several accounts.
Multiple WhatsApp accounts in the same app
For several months now, WhatsApp has been working hard in an attempt to provide users with the features they have been asking for for a long time. The messaging application is indeed preparing to deploy an option long awaited by its users. You will soon be able to set up multiple WhatsApp accounts in the same app, on a single smartphone.
On the screenshots posted by WABetaInfo, we can thus see a new menu in which several WhatsApp accounts are configured, as well as a button allowing to add new ones. A way for messaging to provide users with an easy way to manage, for example, messages from their personal line and messages from their work line. Although the feature was discovered in the WhatsApp Business beta, there is no indication that it will be reserved exclusively for business users. According to WABetaInfo, there is a good chance that Meta will decide to integrate it into the classic version of WhatsApp in order to benefit as many people as possible.
Until now, managing two WhatsApp accounts on a single smartphone was possible, but quite restrictive. The maneuver indeed required using Whatsapp for your first line, and WhatsApp Business for your second line.
A few weeks ago, WhatsApp finally deployed, after several months of testing, its functionality allowing the use of the same WhatsApp account on several devices. This companion mode, all in all very simple to set up, allows you to use the same account on four different devices.
More recently, the messaging app unveiled the upcoming arrival of another equally amazing feature. Directly inspired by what exists with the competition, and more particularly on Telegram, WhatsApp is launching its channels, to allow everyone to broadcast or follow thematic content. A one-way feature (it is not possible for subscribers to send messages to the administrators of these channels) whose confidentiality is certified by WhatsApp which indicates that no protagonist can access the contact details of others. Messaging also plans to strengthen the security of these channels in the future by soon integrating an end-to-end encryption option.
