DIGITAL LIFE

Know the best way to use WhatsApp while you're at work

The fact that WhatsApp is a messaging app that uses users' phone calls may lead you to think that you can only use it on your smartphone. Nothing more wrong, not least because the service has an option that allows you to read and reply to messages on the computer, the WhatsApp Web.To access this option you have to open the WhatsApp application, click the icon in the upper right corner and go to the 'WhatsApp Web'. This will cause the app to access the camera on your smartphone as a QR code reader.The next step is to access the WhatsApp website, and then in the horizontal menu at the top, choose the 'WhatsApp Web' option, which will create a QR code. As you read this code with your smartphone, your conversation list will appear in the browser window in the left side menu and the conversation window on the right side.Note that you will need to have your smartphone connected to the Internet all the time. If you do not, WhatsApp Web will stop working and will be 'expelled' from the browser window.Once you are ready to shut down the computer, be sure to go to the upper right corner of the left menu and select the 'Log Off' option. This ensures that no one has undue access to your account.


Miguel Dias