How to Send WhatsApp Message Without Saving Contact Number
Sep. 27, 2024WhatsApp has introduced cool features such asWhatsApp Communities,sharing your live location in WhatsApp, and even the ability to message yourself. But it still skimps on a basic functionality, i.e. the ability to send a message to someone without saving their phone number. Thankfully, there are workarounds to this and in this guide, we will explain how to send a message to someone on WhatsApp without saving their number.
Method 1: Message Yourself on WhatsApp
WhatsApp allows you tomessage yourself, which can help you keep tabs on important messages, and reminders or even send messages to people on the app without saving their number. Here’s how this method works:
A WhatsApp group may contain participants whose numbers may not be saved in your phone’s address book. But the app still gives you the option to message them anyway. Here is how you can send a message to someone in a WhatsApp group, without saving their number.
Either way, you will land in a personal chat with said unsaved contact number on WhatsApp. If you use WhatsApp regularly and care about your privacy, you should check out ourhide your last seen and online status on WhatsAppguide.
WhatsApp also offers an official method to send message someone without saving their number. It’s called Click to Chat where you create a link, and add the number you want to text. There’s a major caveat, though. This feature isn’t available within the app, to use it, you can use your smartphone or PC web browser. Here’s how you can use it:
Example: To message someone in India, you will use a link like this –https://wa.me/919876543210. Here,91is the country code for India, and9876543210is the phone number. Similarly, you can use “1” as the country code if you reside in the US.
Note
When you enter a number that doesn’t belong to a WhatsApp user, you will see an error message. It reads, “The phone number isn’t on WhatsApp.“
If you are a hardcore iOS user who likes to useSiri shortcutsfor various tasks likeejecting water from iPhone speakers, viewing the file size, or quickly taking a picture, then you would appreciate the existence of this Siri shortcut to message unsaved numbers on WhatsApp. Here’s how you can use it:
This will open the WhatsApp chat window for that user instantly. Easy, right?
Many people have Truecaller on their Android and iOS devices to filter out spam calls and messages. But most of you wouldn’t know, that the app gives you the option to send a WhatsApp message to people whose number you have not saved on your device. Here’s how.
Truecaller will redirect you to the unsaved contact’s chat window on WhatsApp.
Finally, if you are looking for a dedicated third-party app to message people on WhatsApp without adding their number, we have a perfect option for you, and it’s called Easy Message. Let’s see it in action.
The app will redirect you to the WhatsApp chat window for that user. It also uses the click-to-chat feature, but greatly simplifies the process.
So yeah, these are all the methods you can use to send messages to WhatsApp users without adding their contact numbers. The “Message Yourself” feature has made it super easy to message unsaved contacts. But you can use any of the other methods that suit your fancy. If you have any doubts, let us know in the comments below, and we will help you out.
No, you cannot create a WhatsApp group without saving the phone number of the users you wish to invite to your group. If you don’t want to save the numbers or don’t have a user’s number, you can make another user an admin in the WhatsApp group, so they can add new users to the group.
When you message an unsaved contact on WhatsApp, you can save their phone number to your device inside the messaging app. You will see an “Add to Contacts” button on iPhone or an “Add” button on Android. Tap on the button to save an unsaved WhatsApp number.
Yes, you can call people without adding their phone number to your contacts by tapping the “Voice” or “Video” call button in their chat window.
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