Zuckerberg says WhatsApp will add multi-device assist, introduce ‘view as soon as’ disappearing characteristic – TechCrunch

WhatsApp will quickly allow you to use the favored prompt messaging app concurrently on a number of gadgets, Fb chief govt Mark Zuckerberg mentioned. The moment messaging app, utilized by over 2 billion customers, additionally plans so as to add extra choices to its disappearing messages characteristic, high executives mentioned.

Zuckerberg confirmed to information outlet WaBetaInfo that multi-device assist will likely be arriving on the moment messaging service “quickly.” WhatsApp head Will Cathcart mentioned customers will be capable to join as much as 4 gadgets to at least one account. The messaging agency can be working to introduce a devoted WhatsApp app for the iPad, he mentioned.

“It’s been an enormous technical problem to get all of your messages and content material to sync correctly throughout gadgets even when your cellphone battery dies, however we’ve solved this and we’re wanting ahead to getting it out quickly!” Zuckerberg mentioned.

The moment messaging service, which final yr launched the flexibility to set a seven-day timer on messages (disappearing mode), is now planning to increase this characteristic to let customers share photos and movies that may solely be seen as soon as. “We’re additionally about to start out rolling out ‘view as soon as,’ so you possibly can ship content material and have it disappear after the individual sees it,” Zuckerberg mentioned.

WhatsApp customers will even get an choice to implement disappearing mode throughout the app for all new chats.

Zuckerberg and Cathcart advised the information outlet — and it’s certainly the 2 of them speaking — that these options will likely be out there to customers in public beta “within the subsequent month or two.”