Today, WhatsApp has announced an important overhaul of how it handles contacts. Up until this point, contacts in WhatsApp are the contacts on the phone it’s installed on. That can be a problem for those who lose their phone and don’t have backups of their contacts, for example. This can also be a headache for those who share a phone, as well as those who manage multiple accounts with separate contacts on one device.
Thankfully, though, WhatsApp has a solution: a built-in contact manager. This will let you save contacts in the app, and so you won’t lose them if you switch phones.
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