New privacy measures can be integrated in WhatsApp that protects the user, but one of the best is to be able to give the username instead of the mobile number. And best of all, the availability of a username can now be verified from the WhatsApp Web Client.
This experience It has been developing since 2023 And the last thing was the support of user names in the web client as one of the points that remained spinning to go to the day the beta is available before reaching the final version.
This feature will work as in Telegramthat instead of giving the mobile you can pass the username to maintain the mobile number to a good collection, and thus prevent them from identifying us in a simpler way or that bother us with an inopportune called.
Wabetainfo He has discovered that WhatsApp is exploring the integration of a functionality that will allow users Verify the name of user from the web version of the chat app, which makes it very easy to try one or the other.
Best of all, as the indicator that is available will appear with the green color both in the field of the field where it is typed and in the icon located on the right for the “OK”.
The WhatsApp verification system
If the username was not Available or reservedthe red color would appear with the warning indicator. This system is developing to avoid duplicate names and by the mess that could be caused.
If it happened that it was a duplicate username, Confusion could be maximumso here WhatsApp is being taken all the time in the world to close this new experience that greatly improves privacy.
Simply because, once one chosen, now the rest of the unknown contacts You will only see the username instead of the mobile number. In fact, when you add one with this identifier, the user will have the option to share the phone, if not, you will only see the name.
There is an important detail in all this experience, and it has to do with the contacts that our mobile keep and that They will still be able to meet and send us a message on WhatsApp.
At the moment, WhatsApp continues to develop this experience without really knowing when you plan to deploy it for everyone through the final version, since at that time you will have to choose a username.
