WhatsApp is the most popular messaging app and probably a lot of you use it, but do you know how to change the phone number attached to your account? A tip to know if you ever need to change your phone number and still want to keep your current account.
WhatsApp works very differently from other messaging apps. Your phone number serves as your identifier. All conversations and newsgroups to which you belong are associated with it and this data is encrypted. It is therefore not possible to import your history to a new number without following a very specific procedure.
Nothing prevents you from installing WhatsApp and starting from scratch with a new number. However, if you plan to abandon the old number, it is better to recover your data on the new one. Otherwise, you will no longer be able to access your history, to the files exchanged, you will no longer see the news and status of your friends and they will not see yours either.
Unless, of course, you send the number to all your contacts so that they can save it. If you don’t prefer this option, here’s how to change your WhatsApp number while keeping your old data. But before we start, let’s clarify that it is essential to have access to your old account to initiate the process of changing your number.
If you want to change your WhtasApp number using the same phone, it’s even easier. Insert the new SIM card into the smartphone and follow the next steps. The old account must still be active at the time of manipulation.
If you are using the new number on another phone, you will still have to perform the steps described in the previous section. Once again, it is essential to have access to your old WhatsApp (not necessarily the old phone). Once the number has been changed from the old WhatsApp, all you have to do is set up WhatsApp on the new phone and restore your backups.
Also read: How to transfer WhatsApp conversations to another smartphone
This last step assumes that you had enabled backup in Google Drive on the old account. Better to have a recent backup.
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