How to use WhatsApp in Windows without having a connected mobile

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Last year, the world's most widely used messaging app released a beta version of a native app for

's

operating system .

Little by little it was improving and including new functions until today, when

has officially announced it, a stable version available for all users.

This version will replace the previous one for all those who participated in the beta and can be downloaded for free from the Microsoft Store.

This native application, created from scratch and not based on

, as was the beta, can be installed on any computer with

or later.

All you have to do is download, install and then the screen will ask you to scan a QR code from your mobile just as it happened with

.

Now open WhatsApp from the mobile phone, press Menu (whose icon is three vertical dots) and select Linked devices.

Press the Link a device button and when the camera is activated, point towards the QR code that you have on the computer screen and that's it.

This application even allows you to make calls and even video calls (if the PC has a camera).

You do not need to have a mobile connected to the Internet

However, there is a functionality that stands out above the rest, the possibility of chatting and using WhatsApp without having to have the mobile phone nearby or even for it to be turned on.

This is possible thanks to the fact that this native version works directly with the

account, just as another messaging app,

, had already been offering .

This version is faster and more stable, has a more coherent and integrated design with that of the operating system itself and has the option.

All thanks to the fact that

abandons

, the base used in previous versions, betting on a native app.

Some limitations

The design is similar to the web version, allowing functionalities such as reacting, editing images, deleting messages, even viewing statuses (one of the gaps that the previous version had), however, for now it does not allow creating statuses , something that will most likely change in the future.

It also has some more limitations such as not being able to share location or being able to see the real-time location that a user has shared.

In the case of using WhatsApp on an iPhone, the Windows application does not allow you to delete messages, probably due to some type of incompatibility or problem between systems.

New functions

Curiously, this native

has some advantages over even the mobile version.

For example, by pressing the clip-shaped icon, where in the mobile version the options to share images, documents, contacts or location appeared;

In

for

, a new option appears, the

option, which automatically

turns any image into a

No need to use a third party app.

It also allows you to preview the links that are sent, a function that was missing in the previous version and in

.

In addition, the synchronization of messages between the mobile version and the Windows version is fast and you don't lose any conversations along the way, something that had been suffered in previous versions and the Web version.

Similarly, when a message is sent, it automatically appears in the conversation, without

, an advantage that the web version did not have.

In fact, one of the complaints that users had is sending messages, waiting several seconds before closing the browser and seeing that these messages were neither sent nor are they anywhere.

Another good news is that

currently has the same plans for

's operating system , macOS, although it is still a beta.

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