- WhatsApp’s new feature will soon be ‘Nicknames’
- They will offer the option to search for users by name, not phone number
WhatsApp users have another reason to rejoice just a few weeks before Christmas. A feature that developers tested earlier this year, namely “nicknames”, or usernames, which should have the same weight as phone numbers, comes into force.
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WhatsApp will offer nicknames
The advantage of usernames is to give users an alternative to sharing their phone numbers on the platform. Thanks to the new search system, you will be able to add users to your community just by their unique nickname.
At the same time, the developers highlight the security aspect of the upcoming news. Users will not have to share their phone number with everyone, which of course can be misused in various ways.
The new feature was reported by the WABetaInfo server, which is dedicated to leaks of new features of the WhatsApp application. The nicknames feature has appeared in beta before, now it has resurfaced, specifically in build 2.23.25.19 for Android. It is still only available to users in the non-final version.
More news
This is actually one of several recently announced features. One of the big news is also the so-called Chat Lock, which aims to help users protect their “most intimate conversations” from prying eyes by password-protecting them and saving them in a separate folder.
Undoubtedly, the new disappearing voice messages will also be a welcome novelty in WhatsApp, which will allow you to share voice notes with certainty of privacy, since the other party will not have the chance to save or forward the voice notes.
Preview photo source: Sara Kurfeß / Unsplash, source: WABetaInfo, Gizchina
2023-12-06 13:02:19
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