WhatsApp is among the hottest messaging apps on the earth (with over 2 billion customers), even so, one of many drawbacks of utilizing the app is that it’s a must to share your telephone quantity with anybody you wish to chat with — yup, even if you happen to use the QR code possibility.
This could positively be a privateness concern for some customers, particularly in the event that they wish to talk with strangers or companies with out having to disclose their private data, and that’s why WhatsApp is engaged on a brand new function that can permit customers to create distinctive usernames for his or her accounts, in keeping with WABetaInfo.
The brand new WhatsApp function will permit customers to create distinctive usernames for his or her accounts permitting them to speak to individuals or companies with out having to share their private numbers. (Picture: “Apps de mensajería para iOS: Whatsapp, Facebook Messenger, Telegram, Messages” by microsiervos)
Usernames are already out there on different messaging apps like Telegram, which lets customers cover their telephone numbers and phone one another by typing their usernames. WhatsApp could comply with the same strategy, permitting customers to decide on their very own usernames and attain out to others with out sharing their telephone numbers.
The function continues to be in improvement and has not been formally introduced by WhatsApp but — so it’s unclear the way it will work precisely. It might be restricted to sure forms of accounts, equivalent to companies or verified customers, or it could be out there for everybody. It might even have some restrictions on how typically customers can change their usernames or what number of characters they will use.
WhatsApp has been introducing many new options currently, equivalent to the power to edit despatched messages, lock chats with biometric authentication, and use the identical account on a number of gadgets. Nevertheless, some customers are nonetheless ready for an iPad app, which has been rumored for a very long time however has not been launched but.
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