WhatsApp works on the arrival of usernames to the app

Usernames in WhatsApp

It's been a hectic few weeks for the WhatsApp developer team. A few days ago, the blocking of chats with a password, Touch ID or Face ID officially arrived. And we also know that work is being done on the message editing for its official publication in the coming days. Thanks to the public betas of the development versions of WhatsApp, we can also know that They are working on the arrival of usernames. Thanks to this function we could talk to people without needing to know their phone number, something that we can do a long time ago on Telegram, for example.

Talk by usernames and not by phone: soon on WhatsApp

Usernames are almost the lynchpin of authentication on the Internet today. Thanks to usernames, personal and non-transferable, we can identify people in the vast majority of social networks. However, some platforms use another identification method such as phone numbers, as in the case of WhatsApp. Currently, we can only talk to users whose phones we have stored in our contacts.

This is likely to change in the coming months. Apparently, WhatsApp is testing new ways to identify yourself. And among them is the arrival of usernames, a function that has been available on other messaging platforms such as Telegram almost since its inception. This information comes from BetaInfo which is responsible for track the news of the beta versions that WhatsApp makes available to users attached to the beta program.

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In the new beta for Android has been included an option to configure the username. Nothing else. It is very likely that WhatsApp is working on how to integrate it into its application. It is undoubtedly a way of guaranteeing the privacy of users. But behind it there is an organizational complexity, such as how to manage conversations with private companies to avoid user spam.

It is likely that It will take a while for this feature to reach the final version. But the fact that it starts to appear on Android means that WhatsApp is working on it. The next step is the arrival of the beta version of iOS and, finally, if Meta considers that it is a viable function, its subsequent announcement to become an official WhatsApp option, who knows if sooner or later.


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