WhatsApp Web: Mobile messaging app launches the Web services

Today WhatsApp announced a web client that will enable users to use the world’s most popular mobile IM client on their PC and Macs. But this web Client works only in the Google Chrome browser.

The web client is simply an extension of your phone and the web browser mirrors conversations and messages from your mobile device which means messages would remain on the phone as well.

To  connect your web browser to your WhatsApp client, you would first have to go to https://web.whatsapp.com in your Google Chrome browser. That will open a QR code that you would need to scan from WhatsApp on your phone to pair the two instances.

(In order to pair your phone with the web client, you need to install latest version of WhatsApp)

Here is what the Whatsapp announced:

"Today, for the first time, millions of you will have the ability to use WhatsApp on your web browser. Our web client is simply an extension of your phone: the web browser mirrors conversations and messages from your mobile device -- this means all of your messages still live on your phone.

To connect your web browser to your WhatsApp client, simply open https://web.whatsapp.com in your Google Chrome browser. You will see a QR code --- scan the code inside of WhatsApp, and you’re ready to go. You have now paired WhatsApp on your phone with the WhatsApp web client. Your phone needs to stay connected to the internet for our web client to work, and please make sure to install the latest version of WhatsApp on your phone. Unfortunately for now, we will not be able to provide web client to our iOS users due to Apple platform limitations.

We really hope you find web client useful in your everyday lives." WhatsApp Web

Source: WhatsApp blog | Images: WhatsApp Web