WhatsApp is largely popular to smartphone owners, being an easy way to send and receive messages as well as view friends’ status updates. However, even desktop computer users can access the app via WhatsApp Web app or app website on a browser.
Basically this gives you the ability to receive and send messages via PC without the need to touch your phone. However, you need to have WhatsApp installed on your phone and the device must have internet connectivity.
Now, the Facebook owned app is reportedly building a desktop version that may allow users to use the platform even when the phone is not connected to the internet.
Renown informant, WABetaInfo, tweeted that the company could be developing a Universal Windows Platform (UWP) app along with a new multi-platform system that will work even when your phone’s off.
Apparently, there’s not much information available on when this WhatsApp Web feature will be officially running, but we shall keep you posted in case it does. And once it does, it will surely be a savior to a lot of what is lacking with the current availability.
Without the need to have your phone connected to the internet, you can save your data from the apps running in the background as well as ensuring that your activity does not in any way depend on the state in which your phone is.
WhatsApp for iOS might also soon get a feature that will let users preview a voice message. This feature, still under development, will let iPhone users get push notifications for voice messages once this new feature is released. This will allow them to access the voice message straight from the notifications panel.
Additionally, the company also announced on its blog that its popular messaging app is a now available for Nokia feature phones like the Nokia 8110 also known as the banana phone.
