In the present day, WhatsApp has introduced an necessary overhaul of the way it handles contacts. Up till this level, contacts in WhatsApp are the contacts on the telephone it is put in on. That may be an issue for many who lose their telephone and haven’t got backups of their contacts, for instance. This may also be a headache for many who share a telephone, in addition to those that handle a number of accounts with separate contacts on one machine.
Fortunately, although, WhatsApp has an answer: a built-in contact supervisor. It will allow you to save contacts within the app, and so you will not lose them when you swap telephones.
Step one of implementing this new function is being able to save lots of contacts on WhatsApp Internet and Home windows. WhatsApp proprietor Meta says finally it is possible for you to to save lots of contacts on different linked gadgets.
The contacts you save in WhatsApp use a brand new privacy-preserving storage expertise referred to as Id Proof Linked Storage (IPLS), which Meta says retains names and numbers encrypted and solely lets you entry them.
The brand new contacts function will, in some unspecified time in the future sooner or later, be adopted by a username system which is able to allow you to use the app with out tying your account to your telephone quantity.
