What’sApp introduced a new feature and now you don’t have to share your phone number. This new feature allows users to share their username with their friends to add them other than sharing Long phone numbers.
This feature is introduced to protect the privacy of users as sharing phone numbers can increase chances of leak and harm as some people can track house addresses through phone numbers and other specific information. Through this new feature users can create unique names to add their friends and family on WhatsApp.
Protect privacy:
This unique feature is introduced to protect privacy of users as sharing phone numbers can be risky sometimes so now what’s app introduced this new feature and by this you can keep your phone numbers private.
The username can be of minimum 3 letter word and maximum 32 letters. The username can consist of words and letters and also specific codes to add your friends and family. By this new feature you can share your username with your friend and family to add them and also through QR you can add them.
For example if you want to add a friend you just need her QR code or username by scanning the code you can add him/her and also through username you can add them.
Which people have access to this feature:
The feature is available for android versions not for all phones and also available for IOS version. According to WhatsApp, through this new feature everyone can keep their data private. Also this feature will be available to everyone in a few weeks. The version for android and IOS include 24.15.10.71 and 2.24.15.9. This is a new advancement in technology and it can protect people’s personal data and information.
Encouraging more users:
This new feature helps more people to use WhatsApp as some people are concerned about sharing phone numbers and now due to this advancement they can now add people and interact with others. Also now more people will use WhatsApp who were previously concerned about privacy through which WhatsApp company will get advantage and also now it will get more popularity as compared to other messaging apps in which sharing phone numbers is compulsory.
Before this, WhatsApp introduced a channel broadcast option in which WhatsApp users can follow a channel they want to get information about. This new feature helps people who want to get information about leading topics. Now this feature helps people to talk with each other just like Instagram where people add each other just through username.
This new feature helps people to interact with each other on a large scale just through usernames.
Summary:
● WhatsApp new feature helps people to interact with each other through username
● According to WhatsApp this feature will be available to everyone in few weeks
● This will help WhatsApp business and also increase their popularity
● This new feature protects user’s privacy and data.
WhatsApp is a leading app nowadays which is used across the world to text and interact.
