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By Darren Allan
published 17 August 2022
New Windows app is slicker and works standalone from your phone
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WhatsApp has released a new version of its Windows app which no longer requires to be hooked up to your smartphone, and can work completely standalone.
It’s good to see WhatsApp making progress with its desktop offerings, and that ability to still receive messages – and indeed fire up the likes of video chats – without having your smartphone connected is a big boon. Even if the app is closed, with it being native software you’ll still get notifications piped through, so you won’t miss anything.
The feedback we’ve seen thus far online is that the new Windows client is smartly responsive and decently faster than the app it replaces, so it all sounds like a sizeable stride forward for WhatsApp on desktop.
We’re also seeing development on the Mac front, too, as WhatsApp has a native app inbound for macOS. However, that’s still a work in progress, although Mac owners can get on board with the beta if they wish. Meantime, they’re left with a desktop app which is still web-based (and of course the alternative possibility of just using WhatsApp in their browser).
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- Darren Allan
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