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KOMPAS.com – WhatsApp or commonly abbreviated as WA, is an instant messaging application that is quite popular with users today. Besides being free, WA can also be said to be easy to operate by all groups.
To be able to start a conversation with other contacts on WhatsApp, users simply enter and save their phone number first. If the phone number is registered as a WhatsApp account, users can immediately send messages to it.
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In terms of add contact on WhatsApp, the most common way is to enter and save the phone number. Do you also do this method in adding contacts on WhatsApp?
In addition to entering and saving a phone number, there’s actually an easier way. To add contacts on WhatsApp automatically, you can use scanning a QR code from another user’s WhatsApp account.
QR code scanning option to add WhatsApp contact it can be found in the application settings menu. Already curious about how to add WA contacts automatically? Listen, the explanation below.
- Open the WhatsApp application and select the “Settings” or “Settings” menu
- Next, in the photo settings section and WhatsApp account profile name, please click the QR code icon.
- After that, a QR code from your WhatsApp account will appear and the “Scan” option will appear.
- Click the “Scan” option and the WhatsApp camera will open.
- Point the camera to start scanning the QR code from another user’s WhatsApp account.
- After the scan is successful, please select the option to add a contact.
This way, you don’t have to bother entering and saving a phone number first to add contacts on WhatsApp. Simply by scanning the QR code, the contact can be automatically detected and can be added.
Please note, the QR code of the WhatsApp account can be shared by clicking the “Share” option. When shared, the QR code will be received and stored in the form of an image in the phone gallery.
The WhatsApp account QR code image can be scanned in the “Scan” option. The trick, when the WhatsApp scanning camera is open, select the gallery icon to access the saved QR code image.
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After the QR code image of the WhatsApp account is scanned, the contact will be added. For additional information, the above method was tested on an iPhone with the iOS 15.5 operating system version. Different containers are used, maybe the steps and location of the options will also be different.
This is the information about how to add WA contacts without saving phone numbergood luck.
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