WhatsApp Web is the browser version of the popular internet messaging app snapshot of iOS and Android mobiles, a version of WhatsApp that we can use without having to keep an eye on our smartphone all the time, ideal for those who spend hours in the office. PC and they want to have their contacts closer at hand in the same environment. Of course, as we tell you in our tricks for WhatsApp Web, it is necessary link our mobile WhatsApp account to use the Web version. Even so, below we will show you how to use WhatsApp Web on mobile, a possibility unknown to many but that can be useful to us on some occasions.
How to use WhatsApp Web on mobile
Before starting, we must be clear that we can not use WhatsApp Web on the same mobile where we have our WhatsApp and the SIM card associated with our account. Beyond the fact that validating the QR code on the same mobile phone is impossible unless we take a photo with another device and validate it through the photo on the screen, it does not make much sense. use WhatsApp Web on a mobile with WhatsApp installed. And we can always find ourselves with the possibility of needing WhatsApp on more than one device, something that the WhatsApp app itself does not allow.
On the other hand, and before continuing with the tutorial, we must be clear about other functional aspects of WhatsApp Web on mobile. Thus, the mobile phone on which we use WhatsApp Web You can't get too far away from your phone with the WhatsApp app so as not to lose communication between both devices. In addition, not all functions of the WhatsApp app are operational in WhatsApp Web.
Guide to using WhatsApp Web on mobile
The first step is to access the official website of WhatsApp Web with the mobile where we want to use the web version of the app; This web page will detect that it is a mobile browser and will invite us to download the WhatsApp app for our operating system. To avoid this we must open browser options and select the option Computer version, in order to use the mobile browser as if it were a PC one.
With the browser as a web version, we can now reload the WhatsApp Web web page to show the QR code which will allow us to link WhatsApp Web with the WhatsApp app on our mobile. Let's remember that we must use the QR code quickly before it expires; If it expires, we just have to refresh the page so that another new QR code is displayed.
Now we must access the WhatsApp app on our main mobile phone and press the three dots vertical icon located in the upper right corner to display the app's options menu. Now we just have to click on the option WhatsApp Web, placed in third place; in iOS we will find it within the option WhatsApp Web.
Our mobile will show on the screen a kind of scanner with which we will have to point to the QR code open on the WhatsApp website of the other mobile; Let's remember again that we need to do all this pretty quickly before the QR code expires. Once the website has identified our WhatsApp, WhatsApp Web will open on the secondary mobile, ready so we can use it as if it were the PC version.