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Pairing codes matter more than they used to: QR linking of genuinely new devices has been unreliable across engine libraries since mid-2026, and a code that can be read over a phone call or pasted into a chat is far easier to support remotely than a QR image that has to be photographed from another screen. Wapito treats the code path as primary and keeps the QR endpoint as a fallback. Either way the result is identical - a companion device tied to the phone - and either way the phone must come online periodically or WhatsApp will drop the device.",{"example":7,"field":8},"{\"pairing_code\": \"ABCD-EFGH\", \"expires_at\": \"2026-09-15T10:02:00Z\"}","pairing_code","There is no pairing step in the Cloud API. 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