WhatsApp appears to be engaged on a characteristic that will let customers chat with the identical account on a number of telephones, or on a telephone and a pill, in accordance with a display present in a beta model of the app by the location WABetaInfo. The display provides directions for registering the system you’re utilizing as a “companion” by scanning a code together with your fundamental telephone — although at present there doesn’t seem like an precise code to scan.

A display present in a earlier beta confirmed that units could possibly be getting the flexibility to sync latest messages, although they’re end-to-end encrypted. That display, mixed with the “Register System as Companion” display that instructs customers on the way to use WhatsApp on one other system, provides as much as compelling proof that this characteristic is within the works.

Each screens have been discovered within the Android model of the app, which suggests that the characteristic will assist chatting on a secondary telephone or pill. For the time being it’s unclear if the characteristic may also be out there on iOS if and when it launches, although there may be precedent indicating it should. WhatsApp technically helps utilizing your account on a number of units already, through the Linked Gadgets characteristic, which at present solely helps utilizing computer systems as secondary units. The characteristic is on the market on each iOS and Android.

WhatsApp rolled out Linked Gadgets as a public beta in November 2021, and has improved on it since then (although there are nonetheless a couple of unsupported options, relying on what your fundamental system is). However whereas Linked Gadgets is helpful for desktop customers, it doesn’t do a lot for these with secondary smartphones or tablets. Meta, WhatsApp’s father or mother firm, didn’t instantly reply to The Verge’s request for additional particulars on its plans to increase the Linked Gadgets characteristic to assist cell units as nicely.