Don't like the approach as well as it fails on iOS.It's a useful feature considering the new OS was released in July 2015, and represents quite a departure from operating systems like Windows 7, which many are more familiar with. In the interim, you can learn more about the service here: WhatsApp Messenger Web App Now They seem to tunnel the data from the phone to the browser. We’ve reached out to WhatsApp for comment but we have yet to receive a reply.
Potential security concernsĪnother theory is that Apple somehow finds this product unsafe, and prevents the OS (via software) from using the service as designed by WhatsApp engineers.ĭeveloper Lars Schütze opines on Twitter that “They seem to tunnel the data from the phone to the browser.”
This is mere speculation on our behalf, mind you. Seeing how WhatsApp Web works almost identically to a remote-computing client like Parallels Access or Chrome Remote Desktop, we’re left to assume it might have something to do with Apple’s own solution: iMessage.Īpple is known to be overly protective of its services, and whenever someone steps in with a replica, the company tends to keep the gates closed. The WhatsApp team doesn’t specify what those limitations are. While the service works well (from what we’ve heard) on Android, Windows Phone, and BlackBerry, on Apple devices there seems to be a roadblock set in place by Apple that prevents the service from being used with an iOS client of WhatsApp.Īccording to the app’s developers, “Unfortunately for now, we will not be able to provide web client to our iOS users due to Apple platform limitations.” Normally iOS users are the first to get anything new out of the IM service, but not this time around, apparently. You use it to point your phone’s camera at the code displayed on and the page instantly turns into a chat window.Įasier said than done on iOS platforms, which WhatsApp decided to leave out of this equation. There's QR code scanner built into the updated app. The web-based WhatsApp is fairly easy to pick up and use. In a rare move, this week WhatsApp singled out iOS with the release of a web tool that mirrors users’ incoming and outgoing messages, allowing for a faster input method when in front of a computer.
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