On the heels of the official launch of Companion Mode — letting you employ a single account on as much as 4 gadgets — comes a report that multi-account assist is within the works for the Android app.

Multi-account assist “would mean you can swap between profiles on the identical system” in accordance with a report from WABetaInfo (through Engadget). This characteristic must be launched for the WhatsApp beta for Android 2.23.13.5 in a future replace. It could work in a similar way to a different Meta-owned social media web site Instagram, “with a pop-up on the backside of your app exhibiting present accounts and the choice so as to add new ones.”

All accounts, each outdated and new, could be saved in your system and will be logged out of at any level. It appears that evidently this isn’t a business-only characteristic both, in accordance with WABetaInfo, and if true implies that it’ll roll out to all customers as soon as out of beta. At present, there’s no data on a timetable for when that may occur, nonetheless.

WhatsApp has been knocking it out of the park currently 

This isn’t the one helpful characteristic WhatsApp has or might be getting, both. One is the aforementioned Companion Mode, which helps you to join as much as 4 telephones to 1 account in addition to switch information over, like chat historical past, from the account to a brand new system. One other is the addition of usernames that may be searchable as an alternative of utilizing cellphone numbers. The Home windows WhatsApp consumer added eight-person video calls, whereas the desktop app will enable for 32-person calls.

There are additionally a number of quality-of-life modifications for the app together with ballot enhancements, enhancements to pictures or doc sharing, transferring chats to a different iPhone with out having to go through iCloud, and extra.

After all, not all of those updates might be significantly helpful or good concepts. As an illustration, WhatsApp might be introducing Channels, which primarily will work like a Twitter feed. In keeping with the WhatsApp weblog submit, it’ll act as a creator software and is a spot to “ship texts, pictures, movies stickers, and polls,” with plans to construct cost and monetization providers into the characteristic sooner or later.

Although it may very well be useful for capturing all of the Twitter refugees at present fleeing the Elon Musk-owned social media web site, this isn’t the aim of WhatsApp within the first place. It may find yourself being a social nightmare if Meta isn’t ready to have correct guidelines and moderation to implement these guidelines in addition to basic order on Channels.

That mentioned, it’s nice to see WhatsApp including so many glorious options to its software and hopefully we’ll get to see much more.