WhatsApp is launching usernames: here’s how to reserve yours

You tin reserve the username you privation to usage earlier the diagnostic starts rolling retired aboriginal this year. | Image: Meta / WhatsApp

WhatsApp is introducing a caller mode to adhd and chat with contacts, without having to stock your telephone number. Usernames volition beryllium launching "later this year," successful a determination to marque the communications level "even much private," allowing you to support your telephone fig concealed from radical who aren't already successful your contacts.

Usernames are disposable to reserve starting this week, giving you clip to assertion a circumstantial grip you whitethorn already beryllium utilizing elsewhere earlier the WhatsApp username diagnostic officially launches. The username motorboat volition beryllium rolling retired gradually implicit the coming months, and users volition beryllium notified erstwhile the diagnostic is disposable successful the …

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