{"id":998615,"date":"2026-03-17T11:56:01","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T06:26:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=998615"},"modified":"2026-03-17T11:56:01","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T06:26:01","slug":"whatsapp-may-soon-allow-users-to-send-messages-to-people-who-dont-use-the-app-heres-what-we-know-so-far","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/03\/17\/whatsapp-may-soon-allow-users-to-send-messages-to-people-who-dont-use-the-app-heres-what-we-know-so-far\/","title":{"rendered":"WhatsApp may soon allow users to send messages to people who don\u2019t use the app: Here\u2019s what we know so far"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WhatsApp is reportedly testing a feature that could allow users to message people who do not have a WhatsApp account. According to a report by WABetaInfo, the feature called Guest Chats is currently being tested with a limited number of beta users on Android, iPhones, and the web version of the messaging app.<\/p>\n<p>Guest Chats will allow WhatsApp users to generate a secure invite link that lets non-users join a conversation directly through a web browser without installing the app. The feature is still under development and has not yet been released to all users, the report noted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WhatsApp is reportedly testing a feature that could allow users to message people who do not have a WhatsApp account. According to a report by WABetaInfo, the feature called Guest Chats is currently being tested with a limited number of beta users on Android, iPhones, and the web version of the messaging app. Guest Chats will allow WhatsApp users to generate a secure invite link that lets non-users join a conversation directly through a web browser without installing the app. The feature is still under development and has not yet been released to all users, the report noted.<\/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":[4,88,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-998615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-times-of-india","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998615","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=998615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998615\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=998615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=998615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=998615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}