WHATSAPP is finally rolling out a feature that will make it possible to add additional accounts to the same app.
It means you can use two different phone numbers to message on one device.
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The new feature will help people keep users’ private chats and work conversations separate, but still inside one app.
However, the long-awaited multi-account update has been accused of being the latest feature to help make WhatsApp as so-called ‘cheaters paradise’.
The feature is currently available to some Android users, but will be rolled out to even more people in the coming weeks, according to WABetaInfo.
Here’s how you can access it:
Tap the arrow icon next to the QR code button.
In the same menu, there will be a button to switch to a different account.
Note: When you add a new account, it stays on your device until you decide to log out.
Folks on X (formerly known as Twitter) have called it a “game changer” when it comes to separating work from pleasure.
But others have pointed out that its another feature that might make disloyal partners better at hiding their deceit.
Although it can also be used to catch out the unfaithful.
“Me asking my girl out with three different WhatsApp accounts, just to confirm if she’s cheating on me or not,” one user tweeted.
Another said: “No need to use the secure folder for a second WhatsApp then. Interesting.”
In May, WhatsApp users joked on social media that the app’s chat lock feature had “upgraded” infidelity over the ability to keep secret conversations locked behind a password.
While the feature can be used for more innocent purposes, such as planning surprises, others were aware of how the feature can be abused.
A user wrote on Twitter at the time: “WhatsApp will now let you lock and hide ‘intimate conversations’, cheaters have a whole new way to cheat.”
“Ok, I reckon those at the top [of WhatsApp] must be perennial cheats or sumin,” added another user.
WhatsApp’s disappearing messages feature was accused of the same thing when it was introduced some 12-months ago.
The feature still plays on users’ minds.
“Imagine having a partner that uses disappearing message on WhatsApp, you have nothing to prove to me that you’re not cheating,” a user of the messenger app tweeted earlier this week.
Another wrote: “How to spot a cheater; 1. Their WhatsApp is set on disappearing messages. That’s it.”
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