It undoubtedly is one of the most awaited features by WhatsApp users for a long time, and yet it is long since surpassed. As you may recall, Meta began testing multi-device support with offline smartphones in mid-2021, and the feature finally debuted (with some glitches, mind you) in November of that year. Since then, it has been possible to use the same account on up to four devices, but with an important limitation, namely that only one of them can be a smartphone, namely the one associated with the user account.

We knew that though the company has already worked on solving this limitation in July last year. At the time, the only sign of the feature was code detected in WhatsApp’s Android beta, so it took several months before the company began testing “Companion” mode in November of last year, which is what Meta calls a feature that allows you to duplicate account content on two or more smart phones.

This indicated that the function was already closer, though no sign pointed to a specific date, so we waited until today, thinking that maybe the testing phase could be extended over time. However, if you are a WhatsApp user and have been waiting for this feature, we have a very, very good news for you because the wait is almost over.

As we can read on the official blog of the service, Meta has already started rolling out the WhatsApp Companion mode. Of course, the company points out that its scope is not yet global, but that it will finally be available to all its users in the coming weeks. Once support is activated, content will be duplicated on the new smartphone(s) associated with the account (the limit of four devices per account is maintained, except for access via WhatsApp Web). In this regard, Meta reminds that each connected smartphone connects to WhatsApp independently, so that all content is encrypted end-to-end during transmission.

With this new WhatsApp feature finally responding to a very widespread request that comes from afarin another example, that the last two years have marked a new pace of development and improvement in a service that until then had developed at a significantly lower rate than some of its main competitors.