{"id":221270,"date":"2026-06-30T18:09:48","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T18:09:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2026\/06\/30\/whatsapp-to-replace-phone-numbers-with-usernames-what-does-this-change-mean-for-users\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T18:09:48","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T18:09:48","slug":"whatsapp-to-replace-phone-numbers-with-usernames-what-does-this-change-mean-for-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2026\/06\/30\/whatsapp-to-replace-phone-numbers-with-usernames-what-does-this-change-mean-for-users\/","title":{"rendered":"WhatsApp to replace phone numbers with usernames &#8211; what does this change mean for users?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WhatsApp says the new feature will be released over the coming months and that it will notify users when it is available in their country. <\/p>\n<p>Read more at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.euronews.com\/next\/2026\/06\/30\/whatsapp-to-replace-phone-numbers-with-usernames-what-does-this-change-mean-for-users\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WhatsApp says the new feature will be released over the coming months and that it will notify users when it is available in their country. Read more at Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":221271,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-221270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221270\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}