{"id":1017677,"date":"2026-06-30T08:24:23","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T02:54:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1017677"},"modified":"2026-06-30T08:45:49","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T03:15:49","slug":"whatsapp-rolls-out-username-reservations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/30\/whatsapp-rolls-out-username-reservations\/","title":{"rendered":"WhatsApp rolls out username reservations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a major privacy update, WhatsApp on Monday announced rolling out username reservations globally, allowing people to create and reserve a username before the feature is available in-app later this year. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith over three billion people on WhatsApp a lot of names overlap, which is why we\u2019re opening reservations early so everyone has the opportunity to select the username that matters to them,\u201d WhatsApp said in a release.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a major privacy update, WhatsApp on Monday announced rolling out username reservations globally, allowing people to create and reserve a username before the feature is available in-app later this year. \u201cWith over three billion people on WhatsApp a lot of names overlap, which is why we\u2019re opening reservations early so everyone has the opportunity to select the username that matters to them,\u201d WhatsApp said in a release.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,64,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1017677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-financial-express","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017677","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1017677"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1017699,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017677\/revisions\/1017699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1017677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1017677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1017677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}