WhatsApp Starts Rolling Out Username Support when Creating New Contacts
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WhatsApp is beginning to roll out usernames more widely, a feature that's practically essential in most messaging apps. No more asking for and remembering your phone number every chance you get. WhatsApp has a feature that's hard to imagine other messaging apps without. We've known for a while that WhatsApp plans to implement nickname support. However, the process is incredibly slow, as evidenced by recent media reports. WABetaInfo reports that …
After allowing user names to be shared and conversations to be started from them, WhatsApp now has a field available for
WhatsApp Adds Username Field When Creating New Contacts
Copyright protected content copied from PhoneWorld website. WhatsApp is making changes to its contact system as it prepares to introduce usernames more widely. WhatsApp has started rolling out a new username field on the new contact creation screen for both Android and iOS users. The new field allows users to save a person’s WhatsApp username along with their name and phone number. This could make it easier to keep track of contacts who prefer u…
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