WhatsApp just opened username reservations for three billion people — here’s how to claim your handle before…
- WhatsApp is rolling out the option of reserving unique usernames
- Username reservations are coming to users worldwide from this week
- They're designed to make communicating through WhatsApp "even more private"
WhatsApp has become one of the world's most popular messaging apps, but not everyone is comfortable with handing out their phone number to a stranger to start a chat. Fortunately, Meta is rolling out a new feature to help change that.
Today (June 29), Meta announced the arrival of WhatsApp usernames, which the company says will be rolling out to over three billion users. From this week, you’ll be able to reserve a username that you can then use when the tool rolls out fully over the coming months.
Since there are a lot of users on WhatsApp, Meta is opening up reservations in advance so you can claim one that’s unique to you before it’s taken by someone else....
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