Although WhatsApp is the most widely used instant messaging application , that does not prevent us from encountering unexpected problems from time to time, such as the famous why do not my contacts appear in WhatsApp ? This inconvenience is more common than it seems and can be due to different causes.
The first thing we will have to make sure of is that we have granted the corresponding permission to the application so that WhatsApp has access to our contacts . To do this, we will enter ‘Settings’ and click on ‘Applications and notifications’.
Once there, we will have to access WhatsApp and choose the ‘Permissions’ option. If we find that the contacts button is disabled, we will have to activate it so that it can synchronize the application with our contacts .
THE NAMES OF MY CONTACTS DO NOT APPEAR IN WHATSAPP
Another possibility that can occur and cause concern is that the names of my contacts do not appear on WhatsApp and instead we see all the chats identified only by the corresponding phone number. This usually happens when we have changed our mobile, since many times we have the contacts saved in the old terminal instead of storing them in the SIM card that passes to the new model.
It’s a good idea to make sure before transferring from one mobile to another that our agenda is included in the SIM card so that it can be synchronized without problems when WhatsApp is installed on the new one.
If the problem persists, it is likely that there is an error with the application , so a good option is to uninstall and install WhatsApp to try to solve the problem and make all our contacts appear again with the names with which we registered them.
CONTACTS APPEAR ON WHATSAPP THAT I DO NOT HAVE IN THE AGENDA
When a user detects that contacts appear on WhatsApp that I do not have in the agenda , it can be due to two reasons. In general, one can belong to a group in which you do not have all the phone numbers registered, especially if they are of a large size. However, you can see how next to the phone number that you do not have in your address book there is a name, but this happens simply because the other person has configured their user in such a way that said name appears.
Another reason that can explain why these contacts appear is because they do have you in their agenda , so they have been able to contact you through WhatsApp . If you want to prevent those users from writing to you, you can always block them to prevent them from sending you more messages.
HOW TO UPDATE MY WHATSAPP CONTACTS
In order to have all the contacts visible in the chat list, it is convenient to make sure that we know how to update my WhatsApp contacts . Every time we add a new contact to the agenda, it may happen that it does not appear automatically in the application, so we will have to follow the following steps.
When opening the WhatsApp app , we will find a round green icon with a speech bubble in the lower right. We press there and our complete contact list will appear instead of the most recent conversations. In the upper right, click on the icon with the three points and a menu will be displayed in which the ‘Update’ option will appear. We click on that button and in a few seconds our agenda will be completely synchronized with WhatsApp .
The newly added contacts to our agenda should appear in the list at that moment , unless they do not have the WhatsApp application installed on their devices.