This may have happened to you: you enter a new WhatsApp group in which you know several of its components, but not all of them. And among these unknown contacts, you don’t see the user’s name, but their phone number. Solving it involves adding this user to our contact list, but if the group has many people, this can take a long time.
Now, WABetaInfo, the website specializing in beta versions of WhatsApp, has discovered that the behavior of the iPhone application will change for indicate precisely the name of these people and not their telephone number
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In the screenshot above, you can see how this name will appear, both in the group overview and in the group and its member list. With the current version of the app, what you see is the phone number, which makes it harder to distinguish between them.
Our colleagues from Xataka Móvil were able to access the beta to test the novelty, and we can clearly see the difference between what we have seen so far (left) and what we will see with the new version:
In the current version, the name can be seen on the right side of the phone, but only if the user chooses to display it. In the beta, it still appears.
The phone number does not disappear, it becomes more discreet in the upper right area of the message. We now have something similar to what is already happening on Telegram, that you see the name or nickname of users even if you don’t have their number. It’s a pity that this number cannot be hidden like in this other service, since WhatsApp accounts use it as a basis to identify themselves.
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We don’t know when we’ll be able to see this feature in stable versions of WhatsApp, but it should be here soon. It’s not something that takes too much engineering effort to launch, but it’s a detail that will make our experience with the
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