WhatsApp starts rolling out username support when creating new contacts

Core Impact Points

• WhatsApp is rolling out a new feature that allows users to save a contact's username alongside their name and phone number.
• The feature is currently available to select users on both the beta and stable versions of WhatsApp.
• This move is part of WhatsApp's efforts to move away from relying exclusively on phone numbers for user identification.
• The username field appears between the first and last name fields and the phone number section when creating a new contact.
• Users who already have a username due to the recent rollout can tell other people to save it together with the rest of the contact details.
• When usernames become widely available, WhatsApp will also populate this field automatically as soon as users create a new contact from the chat info screen.