{"id":1018070,"date":"2026-07-01T09:28:28","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T03:58:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1018070"},"modified":"2026-07-01T09:48:04","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T04:18:04","slug":"whatsapp-launches-global-username-reservations-to-enhance-privacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/01\/whatsapp-launches-global-username-reservations-to-enhance-privacy\/","title":{"rendered":"WhatsApp launches global username reservations to enhance privacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The renowned instant messaging service WhatsApp, which is owned by Meta, has announced the worldwide implementation of username reservations, a major privacy improvement that lets users communicate without disclosing their phone numbers. <\/p>\n<p>Before the feature is fully accessible within the app later this year, users can create and reserve a unique username through the reservations procedure that started on Monday. <\/p>\n<p>WhatsApp said that once username reservations are available for their accounts, qualified users will receive an in-app message.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The renowned instant messaging service WhatsApp, which is owned by Meta, has announced the worldwide implementation of username reservations, a major privacy improvement that lets users communicate without disclosing their phone numbers. Before the feature is fully accessible within the app later this year, users can create and reserve a unique username through the reservations procedure that started on Monday. WhatsApp said that once username reservations are available for their accounts, qualified users will receive an in-app message.<\/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":[4,92,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1018070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-tribune","category-the-tribune"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018070","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=1018070"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1018084,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018070\/revisions\/1018084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1018070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1018070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1018070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}