WhatsApp has always borrowed since its inception mobile contactsBut with the addition of multi-device and multi-account support to the app, things started to get complicated. In the future, things will get even more complicated with the emergence of usernames as an alternative to traditional personas based on phone numbers.

The app then had to follow in the footsteps of other messaging apps like Telegram or Messenger and sync contacts so that we can recover them when we change mobile phone. Until now WhatsApp never synchronized contacts; instead it uses contacts saved on the mobile phone and usually synchronized with the Google account.

WhatsApp contact sync

WhatsApp reads your mobile contacts to suggest people to send messages to and fills in the names in the app. This solution has been sufficient for many years, but is insufficient Usernames are a form of WhatsApp contacts and therefore will not be saved in traditional mobile contacts.

We now know that WhatsApp is being prepared for the first time. sync contacts in accountIt is something that will be optional. If activated, our contacts can be included in the backup and should also be transferred if we use WhatsApp on a connected device.

It will help us too If we use two WhatsApp accounts on the same mobile phonebecause then we can have a different contact list for each account, which is quite useful because up until now they were using the same contacts, which is the ones on the mobile phone.

Specifically, WhatsApp states that this contact synchronization will allow us to choose which contacts are synchronized with our mobile phone, and manage WhatsApp contacts on connected devicesas well as keeping the contacts of each WhatsApp account separate from each other.

We still don’t know all the details about how WhatsApp contact syncing will work, but we certainly do. It will be a little more complicated This is inevitable because WhatsApp is much more complex today than it was a few years ago, making such changes inevitable.

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