WhatsApp typicpartner relies on the ininestablishigentphone insertress book it runs on to hageder and regulate communicates. But that can be a problem for users who disponder their device and fall short to back up their phone’s communicates, people who allot phones, or those who regulate multiple accounts with split communicates on one device.
To begin, you’ll be able to save communicates on WhatsApp Web and Windows and Meta says that you’ll “eventupartner” be able to do so on other joined devices. Contacts saved in WhatsApp use a novel “privacy-preserving” storage technology called Identity Proof Linked Storage (IPLS) that Meta expounds carry ons names and numbers encrypted and can only be accessed by the user.
In an email to The Verge, press reconshort-termative for WhatsApp Jessica Maskell wrote that the novel communicates feature will be chaseed by a novel username system where phone numbers won’t be needd. Other finish-to-finish encrypted messaging apps appreciate Signal have also inserted a phone number-free chooseion for using the app.