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The most annoying thing is that you can’t just message a new phone number. You have to create a contact and then add their phone number to that contact, close
by bluedevil2k 6y ago
The most annoying thing is that you can’t just message a new phone number. You have to create a contact and then add their phone number to that contact, close the contact app to go back to WhatsApp, press “+” again, search for the contact you just made, select it, then start typing. God forbid the phone number is entered wrong and you have to go back into the contact app. Meeting someone in a bar/club (outside the US), it’s a 3-4 minute process with a high error rate. WhatsApp, let me type a phone number in directly into a new message!
- sebbyy 6y agoDoesn't completly solve your problem but you can start sending message to a new phone number using an url. [0] https://wa.me/{target-number} https://faq.whatsapp.com/general/chats/how-to-use-click-to-chat https://faq.whatsapp.com/general/chats/how-to-use-click-to-c...
- arp242 6y agoYou can get around that using a special "https://web.whatsapp.com/send?phone= https://web.whatsapp.com/send?phone=[..]" and/or "https://api.whatsapp.com/send?phone= https://api.whatsapp.com/send?phone=[..]" URL. I think the web. URL only works with WhatsApp web and the api. works on phones, but I'm not 100% sure (I typically use WhatsApp Web myself). I have a simple form on my website to make that a bit easier: https://www.arp242.net/wa.html https://www.arp242.net/wa.html.