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WhatsApp is making a massive change to the way it saves your contacts


Now, just save a contact inside of WhatsApp.

By Umar Shakir, a news writer fond of the electric vehicle lifestyle and things that plug in via USB-C. WhatsApp typically relies on the smartphone address book it runs on to hold and manage contacts. In an email to The Verge, press representative for WhatsApp Jessica Maskell wrote that the new contacts feature will be followed by a new username system where phone numbers won’t be required.

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