Your WhatsApp chats, read as a linked device. Replies only after you approve.
What it reads
Your WhatsApp chats, as a linked device of your phone's WhatsApp, like WhatsApp on a computer. When you connect it reads the last 7 days.
What it can send
A text into a chat that already exists, only after you approve it on the card.
If a card came in by email but you talk to that person on WhatsApp, say so in the card's chat. The Machine finds your existing chat with them and switches the draft to WhatsApp, for you to review and send. It never starts a new chat.
Connect it
On a hosted Machine:
- Open your setup page at app.themachine.computer/setup, go to More sources and open WhatsApp.
- Press Link WhatsApp.
- On your phone, in WhatsApp, open Settings, Linked devices, Link a device, and scan the code. A pairing code by phone number works too.
On your own computer, run assistant connect whatsapp and scan the code it shows in the terminal. Without wacli, it offers to install the pinned build from Salesflare/wacli, checked against its checksum.
Pictures
The Machine asks WhatsApp for the profile pictures of people in your graph who have none, at most 50 a day, through the sync that keeps WhatsApp up to date. Nothing is sent to them. Someone who hides their picture from you stays without one.
Remove it
- On a hosted Machine: press Remove next to it on your setup page. Your server unlinks itself and deletes what it kept for WhatsApp.
- On your own computer: Connections, open WhatsApp, Details, then Disconnect. Then unlink it on your phone too.
Unlink it in WhatsApp
On your phone, in WhatsApp, open Settings, Linked devices, tap your Machine and log out.
Something missing or out of date? Write to support@themachine.computer.