{"id":869208,"date":"2024-10-23T09:26:41","date_gmt":"2024-10-23T03:56:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=869208"},"modified":"2024-10-23T09:40:13","modified_gmt":"2024-10-23T04:10:13","slug":"whatsapps-new-username-feature-makes-sharing-phone-numbers-a-thing-of-the-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2024\/10\/23\/whatsapps-new-username-feature-makes-sharing-phone-numbers-a-thing-of-the-past\/","title":{"rendered":"WhatsApp\u2019s new username feature makes sharing phone numbers a thing of the past"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WhatsApp is testing a new username feature that will allow users to communicate with others without sharing their phone numbers. The new Instagram-like feature will enhance user privacy since they won\u2019t have to share their personal number. <\/p>\n<p>First spotted by WABetaInfo a few days ago on the beta version of WhatsApp for Android, it looks like the Meta-owned platform is now rolling out the new feature to select beta users on iOS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WhatsApp is testing a new username feature that will allow users to communicate with others without sharing their phone numbers. The new Instagram-like feature will enhance user privacy since they won\u2019t have to share their personal number. First spotted by WABetaInfo a few days ago on the beta version of WhatsApp for Android, it looks like the Meta-owned platform is now rolling out the new feature to select beta users on iOS.<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-869208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869208","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=869208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=869208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=869208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=869208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}