Some Instagram users receive very interesting news within the social network. This new feature allows you to add the mobile phone number to add a shortcut button to WhatsApp. At the moment, it’s only available for business and creator accounts, as stated by Instagram.
To check if our account has been chosen for this new feature, you will have to go to the option ‘Edit profile’ and select ‘Contact options’. Inside, if we have enabled it, the public information regarding the email, phone number and finally, WhatsApp will appear.
There we will have to add associated phone number to receive a verification code. The number can be the one we linked on Instagram or another to use as a contact method. The number that will be displayed in the WhatsApp application will be the one that we have saved on Instagram so as not to interfere with the staff. It will not be visible directly from Instagram in public. We also have the option to modify or delete it.
In reality, this new option is nothing more than a kind of shortcut button to open the WhatsApp application, which must be installed beforehand, to start a conversation. This way, in addition to engaging in discussions through natural channels such as private messages or emails, Instagram adds the ability to directly access WhatsApp to start a conversation with a specific profile.
The merger of Instagram and WhatsApp: collateral damage
The intention of the parent company, Facebook, is to integrate all of its services to offer a single package. In this way, the use of their social networks and public services would be ensured. maintain a direct relationship between them. This measure, along with the company’s new privacy policies, does not generate much enthusiasm among its own users, who have to delay their implementation.
The latest news regarding the new established policy many users wonder whether to continue using Facebook owned social networks. WhatsApp was one of the main applications that suffered user theft, to the benefit of others such as Signal. Telegram, for its part, took advantage of the wave of new friends and integrated the import of WhatsApp messages in an easy way.
The article The merger of WhatsApp and Instagram is here: some users may already link their accounts was published in Hipertextual.
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