WhatsApp Comes To iPhone

iOS users can finally send WhatsApp messages from their computers.

16:29 26 August 2015

WhatsApp Web has finally arrived on iPhone after almost a year after the same feature was launched on Android. The feature, which allows users to access and send their WhatsApp message inside the browser, was first launched in January. However, it wasn’t made available on the iPhone.

 

Now, it seems that it is rolling out the functionality to iPhones, quietly and on a user-by-user basis. Users can check web.whatspp.com to see if the feature has been enabled. The site will show a QR code, which can be scanned using an option in the Settings tab of WhatsApp. If it is enabled, the user can start taking advantage of the feature right away.

 

WhatsApp for Web on iPhone does not require an update and is instead enabled at WhatsApp’s end. However, it requires users to be on the most recent version of the app, as those for other platforms do.

 

During the January release, WhatsApp blamed Apple for not being able to get the Web feature onto iPhones, citing “platform limitations.”