{"id":117360,"date":"2015-01-21T21:45:38","date_gmt":"2015-01-21T19:45:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=117360"},"modified":"2015-01-21T21:47:42","modified_gmt":"2015-01-21T19:47:42","slug":"whatsapp-from-your-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/117360-whatsapp-from-your-pc.html","title":{"rendered":"WhatsApp from your PC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WhatsApp is coming to the desktop in the form of a web client for Chrome and Android, the company announced <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.whatsapp.com\/614\/WhatsApp-Web\">on its website<\/a> on 21 January 2015.<\/p>\n<p>The web app connects to the WhatsApp client running on your phone, and requires that your phone be online to work.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur web client is simply an extension of your phone: the web browser mirrors conversations and messages from your mobile device \u2014 this means all of your messages still live on your phone,\u201d WhatsApp said in its announcement.<\/p>\n<p>Support for more browsers will be coming soon, though iOS users should not hold out hope that they will be able to use the web client anytime soon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnfortunately, for now we will not be able to provide the web client to our iOS users due to Apple platform limitations,\u201d WhatsApp said.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"related\">More WhatsApp news<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/117152-south-african-whatsapp-upgrade-sms-warning-investigation.html\"><strong>South African WhatsApp upgrade SMS warning, investigation<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/116546-whatsapp-voice-calling-will-you-pay-more-for-data.html\"><strong>WhatsApp voice calling: will you pay more for data?<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/114471-whatsapp-full-end-to-end-encryption-announced.html\"><strong>WhatsApp full end-to-end encryption announced<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/smartphones\/114385-whatsapps-two-blue-ticks-disabling-read-receipts.html\"><strong>WhatsApp\u2019s two blue ticks: disabling read receipts<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WhatsApp has launched a web client for Chrome and Android<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":75147,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[36,2594],"class_list":["post-117360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-active","tag-whatsapp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117360"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117360"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":117362,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117360\/revisions\/117362"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}