--- title: How WhatsApp enables multi-device capability | daily.dev description: WhatsApp is rolling out a limited public beta test for its new multi-device capability. With this new capability, you can now use WhatsApp on your phone and up... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/how-whatsapp-enables-multi-device-capability-7wayclvhc twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: How WhatsApp enables multi-device capability | daily.dev og:description: WhatsApp is rolling out a limited public beta test for its new multi-device capability. With this new capability, you can now use WhatsApp on your phone and up... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/how-whatsapp-enables-multi-device-capability-7wayclvhc og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/7WaYClvhC.png og:image:alt: How WhatsApp enables multi-device capability og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # How WhatsApp enables multi-device capability **[Facebook Engineering ](https://daily.dev/sources/facebook_code)** · 6 min read · 13 upvotes · 2 comments ## Summary WhatsApp is rolling out a limited public beta test for its new multi-device capability. With this new capability, you can now use WhatsApp on your phone and up to four other nonphone devices simultaneously. Each companion device will connect to your WhatsApp independently while maintaining the same level of privacy and security through end-to-end encryption. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@manir1389** · 0 upvotes > Awesome feature **@ludskywalker** · 0 upvotes > Is awesome look how fb is reading the suggestions and try to implement functionalities than the people want --- [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/how-whatsapp-enables-multi-device-capability-7wayclvhc) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"How WhatsApp enables multi-device capability","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/how-whatsapp-enables-multi-device-capability-7wayclvhc","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/how-whatsapp-enables-multi-device-capability-7wayclvhc"},"datePublished":"2021-07-14T19:08:33.181Z","dateModified":"2021-10-07T14:17:10.317Z","description":"WhatsApp is rolling out a limited public beta test for its new multi-device capability. 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