WhatsApp will let you use two accounts at once on the same smartphone

The key security feature of WhatsApp is that you need a phone number to log into the chat app. Your phone number is what authenticates you as a user. That makes account takeovers more complicated than someone guessing your username and password. Also, it makes it impossible to sign up for WhatsApp without a phone number and a smartphone. On the same note, you can't use two or more WhatsApp accounts on your iPhone and Android, as each one of them needs its own SIM card.

The latter is changing soon, as Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that WhatsApp users will be able to switch between two different accounts on the same phone without replacing the SIM.

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