plug in WhatsApp It has always been a touchy subject. After all, to do that you have to give the other person your mobile number. Although it may seem empty, this information can be exploited by malicious actors when phishing or playing a trick on you. So if you value your privacy, you’ll be happy to know that Meta is about to update its app with usernamesAccording to a recent report from WABetaInfo.
In the latest beta of WhatsApp for Android, the company has integrated a new text field, right in your profile section. By tapping on it, the app gives you the opportunity to select a unique username for your account. Of course, the function is not yet visible, and has only been found by WABetaInfo during their regular explorations of the app’s code.
Of course, It is a function in development, so its final arrival in the application cannot be confirmed yet. However, it would be a significant step in WhatsApp, as it would offer its users the opportunity to have an extra layer of privacy. Thus, instead of sharing your number to chat with someone, you could give your username, as we already do with Instagram or Twitter.
It’s still too early in development to determine how these usernames would work. on WhatsApp. For now, we can only wait for the company to launch the new feature along with a detailed explanation of how it works.
WhatsApp accumulates more and more news
The last few months have been quite a busy stage for WhatsApp. After several years without significant changes, Meta has been working hard to renew the sensations of its instant messaging application. The most recent of these is the ability to edit messages already sent within the app, a feature that will save more than one.
However, message editing isn’t the only thing we’ve seen recently. Now you can also block chats with a password, fingerprint or facial recognition. Even if you don’t like depending on a specific device to chat, WhatsApp already lets you use the app on multiple phones at the same time.
Of course, all these novelties have an intention behind. At the end of 2022, Meta confirmed its desire to make WhatsApp its next cash cow. Obviously, if they want to achieve this, they will have to include functions that until now have only been available in competing apps, such as Telegram.