How to set up WhatsApp on your Mac or PC

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WhatsApp is a popular phone app that sends letters over the internet instead of through SMS. It's bettering for both Android as well as iPhone, as well as you can likewise download WhatsApp's desktop app or crawlway WhatsApp from your browser.

WhatsApp is designed for phones, therefrom the web as well as desktop apps are investigated to assignment with your mobile app, not shilly-shally it. You can skyrocket letters through WhatsApp in your browser or on your desktop, however you can rejected operate calls on mobile. To use WhatsApp in browser or on your desktop, you will overeat to have WhatsApp installed on your phone as well as already have an bimonthly set up. You'll then have to ingraft the web as well as desktop apps to WhatsApp on your phone. Your phone needs a working internet duet in order to use the web as well as desktop apps as well as sync your letters latitude devices. The final toot to be aware of is you can rejected be slaving into one browser or desktop app at a time.

To crawlway WhatsApp from your browser:

• Go to web.whatsapp.com

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• To stay slaving in, operate unfading the box in the lower-right-hand corner abutting to "Keep me slaving in" is checked
• Open the WhatsApp app on your phone
• Tap "Settings" in the bottom-right-hand corner of your screen in the mobile app if you're on an iPhone. If you're utilizing Android, collide on the three dots in the top-right corner.
• Then tap "WhatsApp Web" or "WhatsApp Web/Desktop" on your phone's app
• Scroll downward as well as collide "Scan QR Code"

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• Use your phone to scan the QR monogram on the webpage. Try to deepest the monogram on the screen.
• The monogram will time out sequent a little while, however you can collide the incarnadine chin with an quill in it on the right-hand side to materialness the monogram again.

To set up the desktop app:

• Go to WhatsApp's download page as well as download the app by clobber on the chin for your device. The download links for the desktop app will be on the right-hand side.
• Open the download. This will take a little while to install.
• If you're on a Mac, a window will pop up. Frustration the WhatsApp icon in that window into the icon for the Applications binder in the same window.
• Double-click on the Applications binder in that window
• A second window will pop up with mismatched applications in it. Collide on the icon for WhatsApp in the awarding window.

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• A window will pop up corrupting you to ostend that you want to ajar the app. Collide "Open."
• If you're on a Windows device, peephole the download will automatically ajar the app, skipping the Mac intensification steps.
• Once the app opens, you'll be instructed to follow the same steps acclimated to ingraft to WhatsApp for web browsers. Start by peephole up WhatsApp on your phone. As with the browser version, the box abutting to "Keep me slaving in" is automatically selected, however you can optate to un-check it.
• Click "Settings" in the bottom-right corner of your phone screen if you're utilizing an iPhone, or collide the three dots in the top-right corner if you're on Android.
• Tap "WhatsApp Web" or "WhatsApp Web/Desktop" on your phone.
• Then collide "Scan QR Code"
• Scan the monogram in the desktop app utilizing your phone to ingraft the two apps

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