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The article says (emphasis mine): > WhatsApp users are getting a long-requested feature: access to the same account across multiple cellphones. This has been
by newscracker 3y ago
The article says (emphasis mine):
> WhatsApp users are getting a long-requested feature: access to the same account across multiple cellphones.
This has been supported by Signal for years by linking devices. You can have the same Signal account on the primary phone (the one you verified through SMS OTP), a tablet and/or a desktop or other device. Messages (and message read statuses) get synced across devices.
Open Signal, go to Settings, then to “Linked Devices” and then choose “Link a New Device” to set it up. And unlike the previous WhatsApp desktop solution, Signal doesn’t (and did not) have the requirement to have the primary phone close by to act as a proxy. You can leave your primary phone anywhere (like on some other network or offline) and still have the linked devices work fine.
- Canada 3y agoI love Signal's multi-device and have been using it, but I wish you could have linked phones in addition to linked desktop clients. For example, you cannot have an Android as your primary and link an iPhone. There's no inherent reason for this other than the mobile clients not supporting anything other than being a primary.
- pranaysy 3y agoUnfortunately while Signal does support multiple devices, it does not in fact support multiple phones: https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/360007320551-Linked-Devices https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/360007320551-Li... Apart from the primary phone, the remaining linked devices cannot be a phone. I eagerly wish this was possible.