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In my experience many people have outdated phone numbers on Whatsapp, since changing phone numbers on Whatsapp requires all your contacts to update your contact
by mytherin 5y ago
In my experience many people have outdated phone numbers on Whatsapp, since changing phone numbers on Whatsapp requires all your contacts to update your contact manually. This happens in particular for people that move between countries frequently. Why go through the trouble of updating Whatsapp to your current phone number, especially if you still have access to your old phone number for when you move back to your home country.
- robjan 5y agoWhen you update your phone number, as long as you register the transfer in WhatsApp (as opposed to creating a new account) it's pretty seamless. There's no need for everyone to update your contact.
- mytherin 5y agoThe UI makes you believe that is the case, but people that still have your old contact will send messages to your old number and you will not receive those messages. See also their FAQ on the website [1]. To stay connected with your contacts, we recommend you inform them about your new phone number before changing phone numbers and ask them to make any necessary changes in their phones’ address books. I ran into this problem when I changed my number while temporarily staying abroad. After switching back to my old SIM I suddenly got a bunch of messages that I had missed from people who messaged my old phone number. [1] https://faq.whatsapp.com/general/account-and-profile/about-changing-phone-numbers https://faq.whatsapp.com/general/account-and-profile/about-c...