To sign in to WhatsApp-on-WhatsApp Web, WhatsApp Desktop, or Portal, you need to utilize your telephone to filter the QR code. Huge associations have framed collaborative workgroups on WhatsApp to share texts for which an email is not required. Here is a finished guide you can follow to sign in or out of WhatsApp.Īside from utilizing it for individual correspondence, you can utilize WhatsApp for your business differently.
But hopefully I gave enough details for you to understand the behind-the-scenes activity.WhatsApp Web highlight is quick and simple to utilize. So, the answer to your question is: only devs at WhatsApp know. This tells me that one or more of these key/value pairs stored in browser’s local storage is controlling the behavior, and dictating how long a scanned QR Code should be valid.Įssentially they are using some propietary code stored in the browser’s “locally stored data" to ensure that you don’t stay on whatsapp too long (essentially to prevent people from activating whatsapp on a disposable phone and then using it without phone forever, they must ensure people OWN A SMARTPHONE AT ALL TIMES). When I delete the local data and login to WhatsApp again, it prompts me to scan the QR Code. It makes sense, because WhatsApp devs cannot let end users tinker with these values and change behavior of the app. Only developer(s) who are setting and reading these values can decipher them in code. While some of the key names are making sense, rest of them don’t. WhatsApp web seems to be storing lot of data in browser’s local storage and it looks like this: I then looked at browser’s local storage. So, it is not these cookies that are controlling the above behavior. When I delete these cookies, close the browser and start WhatsApp web, they get created again. So, I looked for the cookies WhatsApp web is using. This is a standard practice for many web applications. Initially, I thought they are doing this by setting session cookies, that have an expiry date, one month into future.
The browser at work will now LOG OFF).However, you BREAK it IF YOU LEAVE the browser OPEN at work, go home, use WhatsApp Web again (now it’s open on 2 browsers at the same time.Use WhatsApp Web again, it should still work. Therefore, using WhatsApp Web on your work computer should always work.The method only works, as long as you don’t log off (either yourself, or forced, because of dual login).Image 602×504 64.4 KB Other basic points to keep in mind!