This will increase user privacy – it will be possible to publish nicknames without specifying a phone number. In this case, people will be able to search for each other both by nickname and by phone number. This function has been implemented in Telegram for a long time.
It is not known when the function will appear in the messenger. There is no information about the beta either, as the developers announced that the installation and search by nicknames are currently only available for the browser-based web version of WhatsApp.
Source: Ferra
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