The latest update made available for the WhatsApp application brings a novelty that all users will surely appreciate. In question, the possibility of starting a conversation with contacts that are not in the list of your Android or iOS smartphone.
This is a novelty that may seem simple, but it will certainly add a new layer of convenience to one of the most popular communication applications in the world. From now on, all you need is a contact number.
WhatsApp now allows you to start conversations with contacts that are not saved on your smartphone
Until now, to start a WhatsApp conversation it was necessary for the contact in question to be saved on your smartphone. If you wanted to talk to someone outside of your contact list, the first step was to add that person to your contact list.
Thanks to the latest update available for WhatsApp, this step will no longer be necessary. That is, you can search directly in the application for a contact and, if you are already on the platform, start sending messages immediately.
For this, the user must press the button to create a conversation. Subsequently, you must enter the contact number in question in the search bar and thus be able to start a new chat room with that person.
This feature will be useful in rare cases, where there is an occasional need to chat or send information to a specific contact. That way, you won’t need to add it to your smartphone’s contact list.
This functionality may have other equally useful purposes. For example, if you get a call from a number you don’t know, you can easily try to check if you know that person through their profile picture (if available) on WhatsApp.
We often announce new features for the WhatsApp app that are still in beta. This is not the case with this option and it should be noted that it integrates the latest stable version of the application for Android and iOS.