{"id":1017854,"date":"2026-06-30T12:12:51","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T06:42:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1017854"},"modified":"2026-06-30T12:12:51","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T06:42:51","slug":"how-does-whatsapps-new-username-feature-work-heres-how-you-can-chat-without-phone-number","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/30\/how-does-whatsapps-new-username-feature-work-heres-how-you-can-chat-without-phone-number\/","title":{"rendered":"How does WhatsApp&#8217;s new username feature work? Here&#8217;s how you can chat without phone number"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WhatsApp users will soon have a new way to connect without revealing their phone numbers. Ahead of a broader update planned for later this year, the messaging platform has started rolling out username reservations, allowing people to claim a unique handle before the feature becomes widely available.<\/p>\n<p>The move marks one of WhatsApp&#8217;s biggest privacy-focused changes, giving users the option to start conversations using a username instead of sharing their mobile number.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WhatsApp users will soon have a new way to connect without revealing their phone numbers. Ahead of a broader update planned for later this year, the messaging platform has started rolling out username reservations, allowing people to claim a unique handle before the feature becomes widely available. The move marks one of WhatsApp&#8217;s biggest privacy-focused changes, giving users the option to start conversations using a username instead of sharing their mobile number.<\/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":[15,4,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1017854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers","category-telecom-hindustantimes"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017854","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=1017854"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1017855,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017854\/revisions\/1017855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1017854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1017854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1017854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}