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- You can now use WhatsApp on two phones without any unofficial workarounds.
- Meta will allow up to four sub-devices off one primary device, meaning you could have five phones in total with one WhatsApp account.
- Your primary phone needs to remain active, but it doesn’t need to always be on.
Meta has allowed the same WhatsApp account to exist on multiple devices for a while now. Notably, desktop apps and tablet apps have supported this feature. What WhatsApp didn’t support was multiple smartphones, but that changes today.
Now, whether on Android or iOS, you can use WhatsApp on two phones simultaneously. This works pretty much the same way as it does for computers. You download the app on your secondary device, scan a QR code created by your primary device, and boom: you’re chatting using the same account on two devices.