{"id":1018036,"date":"2026-07-01T09:01:56","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T03:31:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1018036"},"modified":"2026-07-01T09:22:40","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T03:52:40","slug":"whatsapp-will-allow-users-to-chat-by-usernames-instead-of-phone-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/01\/whatsapp-will-allow-users-to-chat-by-usernames-instead-of-phone-numbers\/","title":{"rendered":"WhatsApp will allow users to chat by usernames instead of phone numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meta-owned messaging platform WhatsApp has announced the introduction of usernames, a feature that will allow users to communicate without sharing their phone numbers. <\/p>\n<p>The company has opened early reservations for usernames, which will be officially rolled out later this year. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Starting this week, you can reserve a username to use later this year when we launch this feature,&#8221; WhatsApp said in a blog post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meta-owned messaging platform WhatsApp has announced the introduction of usernames, a feature that will allow users to communicate without sharing their phone numbers. The company has opened early reservations for usernames, which will be officially rolled out later this year. &#8220;Starting this week, you can reserve a username to use later this year when we launch this feature,&#8221; WhatsApp said in a blog post.<\/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":[4,85,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1018036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-telegraph","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018036","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=1018036"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1018053,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018036\/revisions\/1018053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1018036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1018036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1018036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}