WhatsApp forgets about tablets

Bittersweet news for WhatsApp users. The company has enabled access to the web browser version known as Web WhatsApp, which will be available soon (not working yet). On the other hand, and always waiting for news in this regard, the hope that WhatsApp would become a multiplatform application, where smartphones, PCs and tablets would be included, is postponed again, since the company seems to forget about the latter. devices.

WhatsApp is one of the star applications for mobile devices. The messaging client has a huge user base even though it is not multiplatform and other alternatives such as Telegram are. The official application can only be downloaded on smartphones and as of today, it is also accessible from web browsers (web.whatsapp.com), but we are still waiting for a version adapted for Android tablets, Windows and iPads.

The truth is that for months we have had rumors of a possible launch that have finally come to nothing. The managers continue to turn a deaf ear to one of the most repeated requests by users: a version optimized for tablets. Because it is true that it can be installed without root on Android, downloading the APK file from your Official Site and installing it manually (with the help of a smartphone for verification), there are even ways to install it on iPad. But these processes, although they may be simple, for inexperienced users are not easy to carry out. We hope that the web browser version, whose news we summarize below, is only the first step.

Web WhatsApp

For a time, this version that can be found in the previous link, directed to a platform that required certain credentials. Today, if you click, you will find an interface like the one shown in the following image.

Among other things, some instructions are shown to be able to access WhatsApp Web using an Android, Windows or BlackBerry terminal from which we will have to activate an option in the corresponding Menu and then enter the browser (which by the way, has to be Chrome). Don't go running to look for it, the current version doesn't have it yet, but it will be added in future updates. However, there is a way to access WhatsApp Web, which other media explain in detail. AndroidHelp.