WhatsApp: change phone number - how it works
If you change your phone number, you should also change it on WhatsApp. Then your friends don't need two different phone numbers to reach you. In addition, participants in a WhatsApp group see if you change their number and your chats are not lost, but continue.
Change WhatsApp number: you have to consider that
- To change your phone number on WhatsApp, you must already have access to the new number. Specifically, this means that you should already be able to receive SMS with the new number.
- If you are in a WhatsApp group, all members will automatically see the new number. However, this message is fairly inconspicuous.
- Contacts with whom you are not in a common WhatsApp group will not be informed of the change of your number. You still have to do it yourself.
Change phone number on WhatsApp - that's how it's done
- Insert the new SIM card into your smartphone. Your old WhatsApp number must still be verified on your device.
- Open WhatsApp and select the item »Settings«. Then go to »Account«.
- Press "Change number", then "Next" and enter your old and your new phone number.
- An SMS will then be sent to your new number. So WhatsApp can recognize that it is really your phone number.
- Then WhatsApp verifies your new number. You can then use the service again as usual.
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