WhatsApp Users Can Now Use Same Account On Multiple Phones

The CEO of Meta, the parent company of the popular messaging app, WhatsApp, Mark Zuckerberg, has announced a recent update to the app which will allow users to log into as many as four smartphones with the same account simultaneously.

In a statement posted to his verified Facebook page on Tuesday, Zuckerberg wrote, “Starting today [Tuesday], you can log into the same WhatsApp account on up to four phones.”

Before this announcement, users could only log into one account on only one phone, and an attempt to log in on another phone would log the user out of the previous phone.

Personal messages remain end-to-end encrypted, regardless of whether users are using the multi-device feature.

The feature will be a useful tool for small businesses that might want multiple employees to be able to send and receive messages from the same business number via different phones. However, users who use multiple smartphones on a regular basis and that want them all to be associated with the same WhatsApp account will find the new feature most useful.