How to use WhatsApp on your computer

WhatsApp has become the communication platform most used worldwide, Both as for well and for worse. Every time this service goes down, many are the users who start to restart their smartphone and try again and again what the reason may be, without previously bothering to carry out a simple search on the Internet, where we usually find the answer quickly.

Since the arrival of alternative messaging applications such as Telegram, an application that many users have begun to adopt with open arms thanks to the fact that it is multiplatform, many are the users who wonder why Mark Zuckerberg's company does not launch an application for computers. Instead it offers us a pretty sorry web service. Here we show you how to use WhatsApp on your computer.

And I say that this web service is very sorry, due to forces us yes or yes to have our smartphone on at all times, without being able to turn it off and forget about it. According to WhatsApp, this is because messages are not stored on its servers (something that many of us doubt), hence the smartphone must always be on to be able to retrieve conversations from it.

And I say that many of us doubt, because with Telegram, where conversations are also encrypted from point to point, we do have the possibility of using it without our smartphone being on at any time. In addition, it offers us an application for all the mobile and desktop platforms available today, something that many users would like from WhatsApp.

But of course, if before the purchase of WhatsApp by Facebook, the issue of updates left much to be desired, this work methodology has not changed, so we cannot continue asking for pears from the elm, since it will never be able to offer them.

Currently, WhatsApp is available on both Android and iOS, the only two platforms that are present in the telephony market today. Each application allows us to use WhatsApp on the computer, but unfortunately, the method to do so is different. Here we show you how we can use WhatsApp on the computer if we have an Android smartphone or an iPhone.

How to use WhatsApp on your computer with an Android

Before doing anything, we must access the website: web.whatsapp.com. On that page it will show us the method that we must follow in order to use WhatsApp on the computer, a method that we explain below:

• Once we have opened the application we must open the WhatsApp messaging application and click on Configuration.
• In the next window, click on WhatsApp Web / Desktop.
• Next, we must direct the application camera towards the QR code displayed on the screen from our computer. We spend a few seconds, the WhatsApp web service will open from where we will be able to follow our conversations comfortably from our computer.

How to use WhatsApp on your computer with an iPhone

First and before doing any other, we must access the website: web.whatsapp.com. On that page it will show us the method that we must follow to be able to use WhatsApp on the computer, a method that we explain in the following points.

• Second, we must open the WhatsApp messaging application and click on Configuration.
• In the next window, we must press WhatsApp Web / Desktop.
• At that moment, we must direct the application camera towards the QR code displayed on the screen from our computer. We spend a few seconds, the WhatsApp web service will open and we will be able to continue with our conversations through the computer, while our smartphone is charging.

How to use WhatsApp on iPad

Although there is no official application for the iPad, we can use the Apple tablet as if it were a computer to be able to use WhatsApp without any problem.

• First, we must open the web with the Safari browser web.whatsapp.com
• This website will not offer us the same information that we can find in the desktop version, so we must ask the browser to show us the desktop version. To do this we must click on the share button and select Desktop version.
• When ordering the desktop version, the web it will be shown as if we were in front of the computer. Next, we must follow the same steps as in the previous section, but instead of bringing the iPhone camera closer to the monitor of our computer, we must bring it closer to the screen of our iPad where the QR code is displayed.

How to use WhatsApp on an Android tablet

The procedure to run WhatsApp on an Android tablet is the same as that we must do on the iPad, but unlike iOS, where we can request the web version directly once the page is displayed, on Android, we must enter the browser settings to check the box  Computer version.

Once the desktop version is shown, we must proceed according to the terminal we have, either an iPhone or any terminal managed by Android as we have shown you in the previous sections.

Tips to consider

By default, every time we activate the WhatApp Web service, the session stays started until we close it manually, in this way, if we want to use this service every day, we do not have to carry out this procedure.

Keep in mind, that it can also be a problem if any of our relatives access this address, our WhatsApp will be loaded so it can become a problem depending on the family member who does it and the content that we usually treat.

If our team has different password-protected user accounts, we do not need to log out at any time. But if this is not the case and all family members access the same computer, the best thing to do is log out each time we finish using this service.

How to log out of WhatsApp Web

To log out of our browser, the procedure is the same, either from an Android smartphone or from an iPhone. We just have to click on WhatsApp Web / Desktop, available in the configuration options.

If a session is open on our computer, it will be shown in this section instead of the steps to follow to use the sessions that we have open, either on a computer or on tablets. To log out, we just have to click on Close all sessions. At that moment, if we are in front of our computer, we will see how the conversations disappear and the WhatsApp Web configuration page reappears.