WhatsApp plans to expand the capabilities of the desktop version of its eponymous client include support for Apple’s smartphone. In the near future technology, working as an extension in Google Chrome, Firefox and Opera, will be available to iPhone owners.
At the moment to use the web version of WhatsApp can only owners of devices on Android and Windows Phone. To enter the interface need to scan a QR code on the page through the app WhatsApp on your phone, so you can do completely without a mobile device will not work. The developers explain the need to confirm numbers.
IOS users can use the web interface of WhatsApp only if you have jailbreak (read more about it here). “Out of the box” verification works on Android, Windows Phone, BlackBerry and Nokia S60. The lack of native support for Apple’s platform due to “limitations of the OS”. What exactly is this limit is not specified. “Unfortunately, we are not able to provide web client to our iOS users,” — said in WhatsApp.
However, the companies are testing the web interface for the iPhone. According to one of the beta testers, it is in the active phase. “In my experience the web version of WhatsApp for iOS works well enough. Open without delay, the entrance is almost immediately”, – he wrote, posting screenshots of WhatsApp for iOS service settings.
The web version uses the iPhone not only to confirm the number. It determines the battery level on the phone and if the battery went flat, browser-based version becomes unavailable, what the user advance warning. The exact date of the launch of the web version of WhatsApp for iOS not reported.
