# Social share component with WhatsApp Web

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**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [February 8, 2019, 2:38pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/social-share-component-with-whatsapp-web/108684 "2019-02-08T14:38:28Z")\
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I think that component is mostly for iPhones where it will open in the WhatsApp app.

On Android we will launch the native share dialog and that will already have Whatsapp.

On Desktop, I’m not sure if WhatsApp desktop app will handle that.

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