{"id":1017692,"date":"2026-06-30T08:15:01","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T02:45:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1017692"},"modified":"2026-06-30T08:37:48","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T03:07:48","slug":"whatsapp-messenger-to-begin-offering-usernames","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/30\/whatsapp-messenger-to-begin-offering-usernames\/","title":{"rendered":"WhatsApp messenger to begin offering usernames"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Paris: The hundreds of millions who use Meta-owned messenger WhatsApp to chat with family, friends or businesses will no longer need to share phone numbers under a coming update, the company said Monday. <\/p>\n<p>Instead, people will be able to pick unique usernames to share with others, in a move &#8220;designed to protect the privacy of your phone number,&#8221; WhatsApp said in a statement. <\/p>\n<p>Restricting access to phone numbers would mean they are not shared automatically in cases such as being added to a large group chat or messaging person or business for the first time, the company added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paris: The hundreds of millions who use Meta-owned messenger WhatsApp to chat with family, friends or businesses will no longer need to share phone numbers under a coming update, the company said Monday. Instead, people will be able to pick unique usernames to share with others, in a move &#8220;designed to protect the privacy of your phone number,&#8221; WhatsApp said in a statement. Restricting access to phone numbers would mean they are not shared automatically in cases such as being added to a large group chat or messaging person or business for the first time, the company added.<\/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":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1017692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017692","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=1017692"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1017693,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017692\/revisions\/1017693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1017692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1017692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1017692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}