What is WhatsApp Web Client and How to Use It?


WhatsApp is a popular and mostly used instant messaging service, which is free for first year. There are more than 800 million active users around the world for this instant messaging service. Through WhatsApp Instant Messenger, users can send unlimited messages, videos, images and many more to other WhatsApp users without any extra charge other than data plan charges.

Sometimes it will be harder to concentrate on smartphone for chating and working on a computer. To make these hard situations easier, WhatsApp has launched WhatsApp Web application for browsers.

WhatsApp Web is a WhatsApp page, which mirrors the conversations of your smartphone WhatsApp account to your browser. In this way, users can chat and be active on WhatsApp conversations even while working on a computer. WhatsApp Web was introduced on January 21, 2015 and it is limited to Android OS, Windows Phone 8.0 and 8.1 Version, Nokia S60, Nokia S40 Single SIM EVO, BlackBerry and BB10 running smart phones.

WhatsApp Web client is not available for iOS users due to Apple platform limitations.

How to use WhatsApp Web client from my smartphone / mobile phone?

WhatsApp Web client simply mirrors the conversations of your WhatsApp account on your smartphone. It is very easy to use this web client. We have to simply scan the QR code provided on WhatsApp Web client page from your WhatsApp account of smartphone and you are connected and ready to go.

We will walk you through each and every step to get connected and use WhatsApp Web client.

Step 1: Visit WhatsApp Web client address (https://web.whatsapp.com) from a browser of your laptop or desktop. Always use the latest version of Chrome, Firefox, Opera or Safari as your web browser for using WhatsApp Web.

Step 2: After visiting the Web client address, you will see a QR code on the page. Now navigate to WhatsApp Web option on your smartphone WhatsApp account. WhatsApp Web client option can be found by visiting options listed below.

For Android Users, WhatsApp Web Client option can be found by visiting Menu > WhatsApp Web

For Windows Phone Users, it can be found by visiting Menu > WhatsApp Web

For BlackBerry Users, it can be found by visiting Chats > Menu Key > WhatsApp Web

For BlackBerry 10 users, it can be found by swiping down from top of the screen > WhatsApp Web

For Nokia S60 users, it can be found by visiting Menu > WhatsApp Web

For Nokia S40 users, it can be found by Swiping up from bottom of the screen > WhatsApp Web

Please note that above directions are after opening WhatsApp from your smartphone / mobile.

Step 3: After visiting the WhatsApp Web client option on your smartphone / Mobile phone, scan the QR code which you see on WhatsApp Web address from the browser.

That's it! You have successfully mirrored WhatsApp account and conversations from your phone to browser of your laptop or desktop. In this way you can work and be a part of conversations at the same time.

Conclusion:

WhatsApp recommends users to comment smartphone / mobile to data plan or Wi-Fi to reduce the data usage while using WhatsApp web client. Now that you have successfully mirrored your WhatsApp account conversations onto your laptop or desktop browser, you now can chat on the big screen.
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