Being primarily a messaging app, learning how to manage your contacts in WhatsApp is essential in order to get the best experience possible. The interesting thing with WhatsApp is how integrates directly with your iPhone's contact list — it means all your contacts are at your fingertips right away, no importing or searching for friends is needed. However, any editing you do to your contacts in WhatsApp will affect the contact outside of the app — and vice versa.
10 Things That’ll happen if you block someone on WhatsApp. You need to know that the contact you have blocked will not be removed from the list of contacts on WhatsApp. A contact will not.
WhatsApp has been continuosly adding features every now and then, however, there are some limitations as well. How to Send a WhatsApp Message Without Saving the Contact in Your Phone 4 Simple. You can either directly add a new contact in WhatsApp or add the contact to your phone's address book. With access to your phone's address book, WhatsApp can detect which of your contacts are using WhatsApp and display the contacts after you refresh the contact list. To add a new contact directly, Step 1. Open WhatsApp on your Samsung Galaxy.
If you have added a contact via method 2 on your WhatsApp but your iPhone cannot sync the contact in the list, there are some fixes to get the WhatsApp contact list showing on iPhone. Solution 1: Update WhatsApp. Once your WhatsApp is not the latest version, you can move to App store to get the recent version. Mar 09, 2018 Yes, definitely anyone can message you on WhatsApp, all they need is your WhatsApp registered number. At this point of time WhatsApp don’t have such privacy options that can control privacy at such level. It is having privacy for status updates, p. Statuses are only revealed once you have saved that profile’s number in your contacts. Thus someone can only see your status if they have saved your number.
How to add a contact in WhatsApp for iPhone
Before you can connect with someone in WhatsApp you must have them as a contact. Something you need to understand - and i really can't stress this enough - your contacts for WhatsApp is tied to your iPhone contacts directly. Anybody you have in your contact list who has the app installed will already show up in your WhatsApp contacts. If you need to add a brand new contact It's very easy to do and is practically the exact same process as adding a contact to your iPhone.
- Launch WhatsApp from your Home screen.
- Tap on the Contacts tab. It's the middle tab which looks like a head-shaped icon at the bottom of your screen.
- Tap on the Add button. It's the + in the top right corner of your screen.
- Tap on the First Name text field.
- Enter the contact's name. You can type anything you want here for your contact's name, including embarrassing nicknames.
- Tap on the add phone button. This will bring up a number pad.
- Type the contact's ten-digit phone number. You will need to include the number's international code and area code (e.g. 1 (555) 867-5309); spaces, dashes, and parentheses will be added automatically
- Tap on the Done button. It's in the top right corner of your screen.
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How to invite someone to use WhatsApp for iPhone
If you already have someone as a contact on your iPhone, but they don't have WhatsApp installed, you can always bug them to join you on the chat service. WhatsApp has a streamlined process to invite someone to download and install the app by sending them a link via old-fashioned text messaging.
- Launch WhatsApp from your Home screen.
- Tap on the Contacts tab. It's the middle tab which looks like a head-shaped icon at the bottom of your screen.
- Scroll through your contacts and tap on the name of the person you would like to invite.
- Tap the Invite to WhatsApp button. This will take you to your iPhone's Messages app, and precompose a message for you to send to your friend.
- Tap on the Send button.
You have now sent a link to your friend which will allow them to download and install WhatsApp. Once they have done so, you will be able to contact them in WhatsApp.
How to block a contact in WhatsApp for iPhone
Blocking on contact in WhatsApp is a good way of dealing with people who keep pestering you. We all like cute kitten pictures, but if your friend doesn't stop sending them and you think you just might snap maybe it's good to take a break from contacting that friend. There is two ways to block a contact on WhatsApp we will go through both of them.
How to block a contact from the contacts tab
- Launch WhatsApp from your Home screen.
- Tap on the Contacts tab. It's the middle tab which looks like a head-shaped icon at the bottom of your screen.
- Scroll through your contacts and tap on the name of the person you would like to invite.
- Tap on the Block This Contact button.
- Tap on the Block button in the confirmation dialog.
This will stop the person from messaging or calling you in WhatsApp. It's important to note that this will not stop them from making regular calls or texts to you.
How to delete a contact in WhatsApp for iPhone
If you're like us, sometimes your contact list gets clogged up with people you no longer talk to. Deleting contacts is a great way to clean up that list so it's easier to find the people you really want to talk to. It's important to note that this will also completely delete the contact from your iPhone, not just WhatsApp, so be sure it's what you want — there is no turning back!
- Launch WhatsApp from your Home screen.
- Tap on the Contacts tab. It's the middle tab which looks like a head-shaped icon at the bottom of your screen.
- Scroll through your contacts and tap on the name of the person you would like to delete.
- Tap on the Edit button. It's in the top right corner of your screen.
- Swipe up to scroll all the way down to the bottom.
- Tap on the Delete Contact button. A confirmation dialog will appear at the bottom of the screen.
- Tap on the Delete Contact button.
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Now that contact will be completely gone from your iPhone.
How to use Favorites in WhatsApp for iPhone
While WhatsApp does have the option to make contacts favorites, the feature appears to be in desperate need of an update. Currently the Favorites tap (located in the bottom left corner) displays all of your WhatsApp contacts, but if you remove a contact from your favorites and refresh the list or reload WhatsApp, that contact will reappear. While Favorites does provide you with quick access to just your WhatsApp contacts, we can't recommend you waste any time trying to manage who shows up in that list. If and when the WhatsApp app is updated to fix this behavior, we will update this how-to.