Changing the mobile phone number can affect the use of the mobile phone especially with regard to contacts. If you use WhatsApp as a messaging app, you may have had this question: If I change my WhatsApp number, will my contacts find out? We explain it to you .
WhatsApp has been in our lives for 12 years, as you read it, the application was launched in 2009 and its growth has been unstoppable. Every month 2 billion people go online to send and receive messages. Every day 100 billion messages are sent through the application and more than 1 billion calls are made. Currently WhatsApp is still the most downloaded and used application to communicate by short message. As a social network, WhatsApp ranked second behind Facebook.
Almost everyone with a smart mobile phone uses WhatsApp to communicate with friends and family. It may be the case that you want to continue using this messaging application, but with another new phone number. E sta situation can lead to consider the following question: If I change my number WhatsApp learn my contacts? We explain it to you.
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WHAT HAPPENS IF I CHANGE MY NUMBER ON WHATSAPP
But then what happens if I change my number on WhatsApp? Or more specifically, if I change my WhatsApp number will my contacts find out? We explain it to you below.
If you change your WhatsApp number, your contacts individually will not receive any notification informing them of this change. Only participants of groups to which you belong will receive a number change notification. These last contacts will be informed that you have a new number.
HOW TO KNOW IF A CONTACT CHANGED THEIR WHATSAPP NUMBER
If you need to know if a contact has changed their WhatsApp number, it is only possible if you enter an individual conversation and the application itself shows you the message “changed your phone number, touch to add a message or add a new number”.
This way you will know that that contact changed their number. WhatsApp gives you the option that you can store your new number in the contact list and thus update with respect to the previous one.
HOW TO CHANGE WHATSAPP NUMBER
If you want to know how to change the WhatsApp number on the same mobile that you already had, follow the steps because it is very easy:
- Open WhatsApp and head to “settings . ” Then click on “Account” and “Change number”.
- Then click on “next” and put the old phone number in the first field and the new one in the second. Remember that it has to be in international format.
- Then click on “next” and confirm the action by clicking on “ok” at the end.
IF I CHANGE THE WHATSAPP NUMBER, WILL THE CONVERSATIONS BE DELETED?
But what if I change the WhatsApp number, are the conversations deleted? Next, we give you the answer. If you change your phone number, but you continue to use the same mobile device, that is, the same device will continue to have all the chats or conversations available on your phone.
When you change your phone number on the same mobile, in addition to the chats, the account information will also be transferred , including the profile photo, name, information and settings from your old phone number to the new one.
What will be deleted will be the WhatsApp account linked to the old number . Your contacts will no longer see that number in their contact lists. In the event that you change the phone number and also the terminal, you must have made a backup copy of your conversations in order to transfer them to the new mobile.