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Open WhatsApp: Launch the WhatsApp app on your iPhone.
Go to Settings: Tap the "Settings" icon located in the bottom-right corner of your screen (it looks like a gear).
Tap Your Profile Name/Photo: At the very top of the Settings screen, you'll see your profile picture and your name. Tap on this ...

What this means: You can have two different WhatsApp accounts active simultaneously on one phone, with each account tied to a separate, unique cell phone number. So, in this sense, you can have a "different number" being used for a separate WhatsApp account on the same device. This is particularly ...

Important nuance: Your WhatsApp account will still be tied to your cell phone number in the backend for registration, security, and account management. won't be visible to new contacts you connect with via username. Existing contacts who already have your number will still see it.
Multi-Account ...

"Phone Number Privacy" in Communities: WhatsApp has introduced a "Phone Number Privacy" feature specifically for Communities.
What this means for your cell phone number: In larger WhatsApp Communities, your cell phone number is now hidden by default from most other members. Only community admins and ...

"WhatsApp data news" is a dynamic field that balances WhatsApp's strong encryption claims with the realities of its data collection for service operation and Meta's broader business model. It's heavily influenced by ongoing regulatory scrutiny and WhatsApp's continuous efforts to introduce new ...

April 2025 news reported that Nigeria fined Meta $220 million for Facebook and WhatsApp data misuse, citing unauthorized sharing of data and discriminatory data handling.
These cases highlight the global push to limit how large tech companies combine and leverage user data across their various ...

Encrypted Backups: News from 2024-2025 continues to highlight the option for users to enable end-to-end encrypted backups of their chat history to cloud services like Google Drive or iCloud, adding a layer of security to data at rest.
- The Ongoing Controversy:

Metadata Collection: Even with E2EE ...

Never Share Codes: WhatsApp will never ask you for your 6-digit verification code. Don't share it with anyone, even if they claim to be from WhatsApp support or a friend/family member.
Silence Unknown Callers: Use WhatsApp's built-in feature to silence calls from numbers not in your contacts.
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News about "WhatsApp number database free" is almost universally bad news and a warning. Here's what you need to know:


There is no legitimate "free WhatsApp number database." Any offer to provide a large, freely accessible database of WhatsApp numbers is either a scam, a collection of illegally ...

News: in late 2022 about an alleged "WhatsApp data leak" where a database containing nearly 500 million WhatsApp user phone numbers from 84 countries (including the US, UK, Egypt, Italy, and India) was put up for sale.

WhatsApp's Response: WhatsApp (and Meta) officially denied that this was a "data ...