You will have to uninstall WhatsApp from your smartphone. Hence, in order to get WhatsApp running on your tablet, we suggest you either use a new number or use WhatsApp on your tablet only. To use it on another smartphone, you need to have a new number or transfer the old data to the new phone. Also, you cannot use WhatsApp with the same SIM card or phone number on more than one phone. When installing WhatsApp, the app sends a message to its servers, and then intercepts an incoming SMS to the device to confirm and activate it. As you should know, WhatsApp can only run on a smart device which has a working SIM card installed in it. If you are a techie, you can get it done within a few minutes.īefore we begin, let us inform you about a few crucial conditions, which will ensure that WhatsApp functions on your iPad/iPod.

The procedure is pretty simple, and you can get it up and running within half an hour. All you need is an iPad/iPod, a Mac or Windows PC and an iPhone. And the best part is that you don’t need to have your iPad or iPod jailbroken to get this working. However, there is a method, using which, you can install WhatsApp on an iPad or iPod and use it without any issues.

The iPad and iPod touch, even though they feature 3G SIM card slots for the Internet, cannot have WhatsApp working because of incompatibility with the device. Certain 3G Android tablets which allow you to make phone calls are the only ones which can use WhatsApp for now. However, WhatsApp is limited to smartphones and you cannot use it on most tablets and all PCs as yet. WhatsApp is the most-used messaging and social networking platform today.

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