One of the restrictions of WhatsApp is which you could solely use it on your cellphone. If you aren’t carrying your cellphone, you are caught with out WhatsApp. Well, not anymore.
WhatsApp has rolled out WhatsApp Web that permits you to use WhatsApp inside a desktop browser. Here are directions on how to setup WhatsApp Web. However, if you’re unable to use WhatsApp Web for some motive, there’s one other means. Read on.
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Note that whereas this information is for WhatsApp, you’ll be able to run nearly any Android app utilizing this technique. Just exchange the apk file in step 5, with the apk of the Android app you need to run. Here’s a good source to download apk files.
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1. You’re going to want an Android emulator app to accomplish this. We’ve tried it with Bluestacks App Player but it surely ought to work with some other emulator too. You’ll additionally want a cell phone to confirm the WhatsApp account.
2. Download Bluestacks App Player on your laptop.
3. Run the setup file to set up it. During set up, Bluestacks will ask for App Store Access and App Notifications. You can uncheck each whereas putting in.
4. Wait for the set up to end (it takes a number of minutes). During the ultimate phases of set up, Bluestacks will run in full-screen mode. Tap the diagonal line icon on the top-right to run it in windowed mode. This makes the following few steps simple.
5. Leave Bluestacks App Player operating and go to your browser. Download the WhatsApp apk file.
6. Double-click the WhatsApp.apk file that is saved on your PC. The app will mechanically set up itself in Bluestacks App Player.
7. In Bluestacks, you will see a grid of apps you have put in. Find and launch WhatsApp.
8. Enter your cellphone quantity and click on Verify.
9. Now wait for five minutes as WhatsApp tries, and fails, to mechanically confirm utilizing SMS.
10. After 5 minutes, WhatsApp will give you an possibility for voice verification. Click Call me.
11. You’ll get a cellphone name. Answer it and you will hear the verification code being spoken in loop.
12. Enter the verification in WhatsApp (operating in Bluestacks) and also you’re good to go.
13. None of your current contacts will present up in WhatsApp in case you use this technique. You can nonetheless reply to any messages you obtain.
14. You can add contacts individually to WhatsApp by clicking on the three dots icon on the top-right > Contacts. Click the contact icon on the top-right, subsequent to search. These contacts can be saved domestically and won’t present up on different gadgets. You can then begin sending messages to these contacts as properly.
15. Any teams you are a a part of may also not present up on the PC. You may have to ask the group admin to add you to the group once more.
If you are hoping to use WhatsApp on each your PC and your cellphone on the similar time, you’re out of luck. One cellphone quantity may be related to just one gadget at a time – your cellphone will cease receiving WhatsApp messages whenever you’re utilizing it on the desktop. Another limitation is which you could’t swap between the 2 gadgets immediately. WhatsApp imposes a 20-minute delay between two verification makes an attempt (this delay retains growing with every verification try on the identical day), so hold that in thoughts when setting it up on any gadget.
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