WhatsApp for Android may soon let you switch accounts on the same device

On the heels of the official release of Companion Mode — letting you use a single account on up to four devices — comes a report that multi-account support is in the works for the Android app.

Multi-account support “would allow you to switch between profiles on the same device” according to a report from WABetaInfo (via Engadget). This feature should be released for the WhatsApp beta for Android 2.23.13.5 in a future update. It would work in a similar fashion to another Meta-owned social media site Instagram, “with a pop-up at the bottom of your app showing current accounts and the option to add new ones.”

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(Image credit: WABetaInfo)

All accounts, both old and new, would be stored on your device and can be logged out of at any point. It seems that this isn’t a business-only feature either, according to WABetaInfo, and if true means that it’ll roll out to all users once out of beta. Currently, there’s no information on a timetable for when that will happen, however.

WhatsApp has been knocking it out of the park lately