How do you use whatsapp on ipad
How To Get WhatsApp On iPad
How-To
While there is no WhatsApp app for iPad (yet), we explain a simple way to access and send WhatsApp messages on an iPad.
By Lewis Painter
Senior Staff Writer, Macworld
Macworld UK
WhatsApp is an incredibly popular iPhone app, connecting more than a billion active members around the world every day. It lets you send messages to friends, or groups of friends, over Wi-Fi or 4G/5G and make savings on your phone bill. (Of course, you may end up paying for data if you go over your limit, so don’t go crazy!)
The sad thing is that WhatsApp is only available for iPhone. There isn’t a version of the app for the iPad (or iPod touch).
But don’t despair. In this tutorial, we show you how to use WhatsApp on the iPad using WhatsApp Web. This service connects to the WhatsApp account on your iPhone (or Android device) and forwards the messages on to your iPad, allowing you to send and receive messages, pictures and videos. It’s not quite native WhatsApp on the iPad, but it’s the next best thing.
WhatsApp for iPad release date
While right now there is no version of Whatsapp on the iPad, there could be one coming. In August 2021 news emerged that a Whatsapp app for iPad is coming soon with a project to bring the messaging app to iPad (and Android tablets) in development.
Then in January 2022 WhatsApp boss Will Cathcart acknowledged in an interview that people had been asking for an iPad app for a long time. Cathcart revealed that much of the infrastructure to develop an iPad app is already in place, but he made no immediate promises.
Since then reports have emerged suggesting that WhatsApp for iPad will be released with multi-device support. WABetaInfo tweeted in May 2022 that: “Multi-device 2.0 will let people link an additional mobile phone or tablet (WhatsApp for iPad/Android tablet) to the same WhatsApp account in the future.”
Multi-device 2.
— WABetaInfo (@WABetaInfo) May 27, 20220 will let people link an additional mobile phone or tablet (WhatsApp for iPad/Android tablet) to the same WhatsApp account in the future. pic.twitter.com/Vmv8QLFFxZ
Perhaps 2022 will be the year that Whatsapp comes to iPad, and for that matter Mac as well! Read our separate tutorial about how to use Whatsapp on a Mac.
How to get WhatsApp on iPad
Follow these steps to get WhatsApp on an iPad:
- Open Safari on your iPad and head to web.whatsapp.com. As long as you’re on iPadOS 13 or later, this will load the correct desktop version of WhatsApp Web automatically.
- Those on iOS 12 and earlier will be taken to the WhatsApp home page instead. To solve this, tap and hold the refresh button to the right of the website address. After a second or two, tap the option that appears saying ‘Load desktop site’.
- You’ll now see the familiar WhatsApp Web interface, complete with a QR code to pair with your iPhone.
Open the iPhone’s Settings, go to WhatsApp Web, and scan the code to pair the two devices. - The page should now load and display all your recent WhatsApp messages, along with any media or voice notes.
Be aware that there are a few limitations when using this workaround. Most importantly, unlike when the service is used on a Mac or PC, notifications from web browsers aren’t supported on iOS/iPadOS. You won’t be notified of new messages.
Apart from that and a few small bugs, however, the service is pretty easy to use and a great alternative for WhatsApp users keen to access the service on iPad.
WhatsApp Web is a free and easy way to access the WhatsApp service on your iPad. Although you won’t get notifications (as you would when using the service on Mac or PC), it’s a great way to easily access your messages on a tablet.
Moving from Android to iPhone and want to bring your WhatsApp messages with you? Read: How to move WhatsApp messages from Android to iPhone.
Author: Lewis Painter, Senior Staff Writer
Lewis Painter is a Senior Staff Writer at Tech Advisor. Our resident Apple expert, Lewis covers everything from iPhone to AirPods, plus a range of smartphones, tablets, laptops and gaming hardware. You'll also find him on the Tech Advisor YouTube channel.
How to Use WhatsApp on iPad
Despite strong competition from the likes of Telegram and Signal, WhatsApp remains the most popular mobile messaging platform by a mile, connecting over a billion active users around the world every day.
As a smartphone app, WhatsApp messages are principally exchanged between iPhones and Android phones, but WhatsApp is known to be developing an iPad app that would increase the number of active devices on the chat platform.
While the iPad app has yet to to launch, it is already possible to use WhatsApp on an iPad via the web without the iPhone associated with your account having to be connected to the internet.
Keep reading to learn how it works.
WhatsApp on iPad
Previously, the WhatsApp mobile app was required to authenticate an account used on another device, such as a computer, and it used a QR code to link a user account to a web browser. While that initial link is still required, the connected phone that has the WhatsApp app on it is no longer required once the link has been made, which means you can continue to use WhatsApp on your iPad without needing your smartphone.
The following steps show you how to link your WhatsApp account to your iPad using the service's new Multi-Device support, currently in beta.
- Launch WhatsApp on your iPhone.
- Select Settings -> Linked Devices.
- Tap Multi-Device Beta, then tap the blue Join Beta button.
- Tap Back and select Link a Device on the previous screen.
- On your iPad, open Safari or another web browser and go to web.
whatsapp.com, then scan the QR code that appears using your iPhone.
After following these steps your device will be linked to your WhatsApp account, and you'll be able to access WhatsApp on your iPad to send and receive messages and view chat threads, without needing to rely on your phone being connected to the internet.
Bear in mind that it's not currently possible to delete WhatsApp messages or conversation threads from your iPad. It's also worth noting that you won't get new message notifications on your iPad when you're not using the web app. On the plus side, personal calls and messages remain end-to-end encrypted across devices.
If you don't use your iPhone for over 14 days, your iPad will be disconnected. Lastly, given that the feature is still in beta, WhatsApp cautions that the performance and quality of its service may be affected, although happily, users can leave the beta at any time.
Tags: WhatsApp, WhatsApp Web
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How to use WhatsApp on iPad
After a long wait, iPhone users can finally use WhatsApp Web, WhatsApp's web service (because it's not an app in itself) to continue chatting through our PC or Mac. Work in Google browser, Chrome is more smooth and complete. If we have a Mac, we can use the same service through the Safari browser, which is installed by default on OS X and provides better desktop performance and performance. nine0003
With the advent of WhatsApp Web , we can also use our iPad to continue WhatsApp conversations on the tablet, without having to connect to the mobile phone because it is charging, or because we left it in another room and do not want to get up for it every time we hear him call. Next, I'm going to show you how we can use WhatsApp Web on our iPad without having to install any other application or resort to any jailbreak settings. nine0003
- First of all, we go to Safari, the browser that is natively integrated into iOS, and write in the address bar web.
whatsapp.com
- By default, the WhatsApp homepage will open. Now we don't go to the address bar and slide over a window with a gray background on top of so that we can access a menu that allows us to visit the website as if we were on a computer and not on a tablet. click on PC version . Then a QR code will be shown, which we must capture using the WhatsApp app on the iPhone.
- Now we don't go into the settings of our iPhone and access the WhatsApp Web menu and click Scan QR code . We bring the iPhone up to the iPad screen and automatically when it detects the code on the iPad, WhatsApp Web opens, through which we can communicate with our contacts if we need our iPhone.
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Keep in mind that is strictly necessary to keep the iPhone on battery or charging (device at rest) but never because WhatsApp Web uses our iPhone to sync messages to our iPad.
Another thing to keep in mind is that from now on, whenever we access WhatsApp Web from our iPad, we will no longer need to follow the same process, without the browser automatically saving the session when we want to use again. this service. nine0003
If for any reason we use WhatsApp Web through a computer, the iPad session will be closed and we will have to go through the whole process again to be able to use WhatsApp Web on our iPad again. WhatApp Web is not as fast on the iPad as you might expect when compared to the iPhone version, but used sporadically, the operation is more than correct.
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How to install WhatsApp on iPad?
Probably the first problem iPad users have when installing WhatsAapp on iPad - No tablet version in the App Store. Moreover, unlike other programs available for the iPhone, the application cannot be found even when you turn on the display of programs only iPhone . If you try to install the program from your computer, iTunes will also give an error.
To get around all these obstacles, we will have to follow a few simple steps:
- Open the iTunes program on your Windows or Mac computer and transfer to section iTunes Store .
- In it, find the program itself WhatsApp and download it to your computer
After that, you will need to resort to the third-party program iFunBox (download here), which is available for both Windows and Mac. This program is essentially a manager for iOS devices, similar to iTunes.
- Connect your iPad to your computer and make sure it is detected in iFunBox.
- Press key Install application and search for the installation file . ipa program WhatsApp, which was downloaded from iTunes Store.
- After successful completion of the procedure, the program WhatsApp will appear on the iPad screen.
However, it will still not be possible to use the program on the iPad, because at startup it will report that it is not designed to work on the tablet:
Now you will need an iPhone on which the program is either not installed or has been deleted whatsapp. Please note that after uninstalling WhatsApp from iPhone, you cannot restore a copy of iCloud chat data during subsequent installation. A standard window for number registration should appear on the phone.
After the application confirms your phone number and sends a message with a confirmation code via SMS, complete the setup and connect your iPhone to a computer running the iFunBox program.
- Go to section Applications and search for whatsapp .
- Copy Documents and Library folders from iPhone to Mac or Windows computer.
- Turn off iPhone.
Now reconnect your iPad to your computer and run the program iFunBox .
