{"id":104831,"date":"2026-03-22T15:44:46","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T10:44:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=104831"},"modified":"2026-03-22T15:44:46","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T10:44:46","slug":"whatsapp-set-to-launch-game-changing-username-feature-by-mid-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/technology\/whatsapp-set-to-launch-game-changing-username-feature-by-mid-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"WhatsApp set to launch game-changing username feature by mid-2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/technology\/whatsapp-will-soon-let-you-chat-in-any-language\/\">WhatsApp<\/a> is preparing to introduce one of the biggest updates in recent years.<\/p>\n<p>According to a report by the Economic Times, the Meta-owned messaging app is planning to introduce a username-based communication system.<\/p>\n<p>Under this new feature, users will not need to share phone numbers for text chat, audio or video calls with each other.<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, this biggest update of this year to WhatsApp will be introduced worldwide in mid-2026.<\/p>\n<p>The report further said that the company has set a target of introducing it in June and thus the way of using the messaging platform will change forever.<\/p>\n<p>This change will provide greater protection to the privacy of users as people will not need to share their personal phone numbers for chat.<\/p>\n<p>Various platforms like Instagram and Facebook already provide username support, and messaging apps like Telegram and Signal have also been offering similar features to users for quite some time.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, various reports had said that the username system would be introduced as an optional privacy feature and phone numbers would not be completely eliminated.<\/p>\n<p>That is, users would be able to decide whether to use their unique username to contact someone or continue using their mobile number.<\/p>\n<p>WhatsApp has been working on the username feature for quite some time, but now the date of its introduction has been revealed for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>Having a username will depend on its availability, and people who have your phone number will likely be able to contact you in the old way.<\/p>\n<p>Along with usernames, WhatsApp is also testing a new feature called guest chats.<\/p>\n<p>This feature will allow users to contact people who do not have a WhatsApp account, and this will be done through a browser-based link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: WhatsApp is preparing to introduce one of the biggest updates in recent years. According to a report by the Economic Times, the Meta-owned messaging app is planning to introduce a username-based communication system. Under this new feature, users will not need to share phone numbers for text chat, audio or video calls with each [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":104832,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[38368,158],"class_list":["post-104831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-economic-times","tag-whatsapp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104831"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104833,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104831\/revisions\/104833"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}