Multi-device support has been around for a long time the most requested feature of WhatsApp by its users but still Meta took it quite calmly. It wasn’t until the middle of last year that beta support for multiple devices began without the need to connect a smartphone, and in November of last year, when the feature finally (albeit with some problems) began to roll out to all WhatsApp users.

Since, the service allows you to use the same account on up to four devices, including the phone associated with the account. However, there is a particular limitation in this regard, namely that none of the three additional devices can be a second smartphone. Probably because the account is linked to the phone number, trying to configure it simultaneously on a second device and use it interchangeably between the two is something that is not yet possible.

But yes, it still has a reason for it, because in WABetaInfo we can read that the company has decided to remove this restriction, so it is already working on allow the same account to be used on a second smartphone, except for the one that fulfills the role of the main device. This information was found in the code of the latest WhatsApp beta for Android, although we can understand that it will also make its way to iOS.

As with all other devices, WhatsApp will automatically mirror the content between the two phones, so history is always fully up-to-date for both. although when using the second smartphone for the first time, the operation of dumping the entire history, especially if its size is large, may take some time. Therefore, it is best to configure the account and let the device download the history before using this instance of WhatsApp.

This feature, as mentioned above, was detected in a beta version, specifically WhatsApp for Android beta version 2.22.15.13, but that doesn’t mean users of this version already have this feature. At the moment it is in the application code, but it is not active. So, at this point, it is difficult to know how long this feature will take to reach WhatsApp users. However, knowing that they are working on it is good news in itself for all the people who use two phones but don’t want to have two WhatsApp accounts.