The changing of the phone number in WhatsApp is always a bit tricky. WhatsApp is testing a new feature to fix it. That is the new feature in WhatsApp tool that not many people know about is number change. If you make portability, you can migrate all your data to a new account. However, this function had a big mistake that the company had not corrected until today.
Notify your contacts of the number change, the new feature of WhatsApp
If you’ve ever done permanency, you’ve wondered if it’s possible to change and migrate all of our WhatsApp data to our new line. The truth is that it is possible since the application has a tool that allows us to do it.
Until today, this tool had a small problem, and that is that even if our information migrated, our contacts were not sure that our phone number had changed, having to manually send a message to all our contacts (or at least, those we are interested in) with this new number. WhatsApp has decided to put an end to this inconvenience by improving its tool for changing the phone number.
WhatsApp has a new tool to change the phone number
As WABetaInfo informs us, this feature is being deployed by WhatsApp to users of the beta version, with version 2.18.97. If you have not yet received this update, you can download it from APKMirror, although we remind you that it is a beta version, and therefore may contain errors.
Wondering how this new change works? It’s easy:
Go to Settings -> Account -> Change Number. We will have to enter our current number and our new phone number to make the change. The new feature is that from now on, before making the change, you will inform us if we want to notify our contacts of the number change. The options proposed by the application are the following:
- Do not notify: You will not notify any of our contacts.
- Notify users you have a conversation with: Only users you have an open chat with.
- Customize: Manually choose which users you want to let know your new number. Yeah, not everyone has to know him.
- Once confirmed, the users we have chosen will receive the information in a chat. Please note that all groups you are in will also be notified.
The question is, what if someone we don’t want to know about the number change is in a group?
For the moment, this feature is in the beta version, but it will only be a matter of time before it reaches all users.