{"id":1002041,"date":"2026-04-09T11:02:52","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T05:32:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1002041"},"modified":"2026-04-09T11:02:52","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T05:32:52","slug":"keep-your-number-hidden-whatsapp-reportedly-begins-rolling-out-username-feature-to-change-how-you-chat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/09\/keep-your-number-hidden-whatsapp-reportedly-begins-rolling-out-username-feature-to-change-how-you-chat\/","title":{"rendered":"Keep your number hidden: WhatsApp reportedly begins rolling out username feature to change how you chat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WhatsApp has finally begun rolling out the highly anticipated username feature, according to a report by WABetainfo. However, the publication notes that the new feature is currently available to a very limited number of users and is rolling out to more accounts over the coming weeks.<\/p>\n<p>What is WhatsApp&#8217;s usernames feature?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WhatsApp has finally begun rolling out the highly anticipated username feature, according to a report by WABetainfo. However, the publication notes that the new feature is currently available to a very limited number of users and is rolling out to more accounts over the coming weeks. What is WhatsApp&#8217;s usernames feature?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,4,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1002041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-mint","category-newspapers","category-telecom-live-mint"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1002041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002041\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1002041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1002041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1002041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}