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Just a PSA for anyone else who's left WhatsApp in the past few days. Before uninstalling, I went through the settings and actually "deleted" my account, but af

Just a PSA for anyone else who's left WhatsApp in the past few days. Before uninstalling, I went through the settings and actually "deleted" my account, but after letting one of my few WhatsApp contacts know I had done so, he mentioned I still show up in chats. So let people know if you're leaving, because it seems WhatsApp won't prevent them from messaging someone who doesn't exist.

OJFord 6y ago
It would just use SMS wouldn't it? So unless you also changed number, you'd still receive the message?
- dylan604 6y ago
  If you "deleted" your account, then the number associated with that account BETTER DAMN WELL BE DELETED too.
  - OJFord 6y ago
    I mean your phone number. WhatsApp finds contacts by phone number, and messages them over SMS if they are not themselves on WhatsApp. (At least, I thought it did?) So I'm saying I assume the situation after deleting WhatsApp is the same as if you'd never had it, SMS. It wouldn't make sense for User B deleting WhatsApp to cause B's phone number to disappear from User A's contacts.
    - thekyle 6y ago
      Signal can send SMS message as a fallback, but I don't think WhatsApp has that feature.
      - dylan604 6y ago
        I did not know Signal was able to do that. Seems kind of like it is defeating the purpose of Signal.
vin047 6y ago
As an FYI to you and anyone reading this, you could convert your account to a business account using WhatsApp for Business. It has an auto-reply feature that you can enable with a custom message, to inform people you've moved to whatever platform you've decided to move to.