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Privacy is usually the number one concern for anyone using any social media website or app. How do we protect our personal information? This is particularly important for messaging apps such as Viber or WhatsApp, where you need to reveal your phone number, sometimes to total strangers.
Telegram found a way to address this concern by allowing users to add contacts by their username, without knowing their phone number. If this sounds like something you appreciate in an app, read on to learn more.
Finding people in the Telegram app without adding their phone number is pretty easy. If you know (or you think you can guess) someone’s username, do the following:
Note that you’ll be able to see the new contact’s phone number as soon as they accept your invitation. Also, you can skip sharing your contact with them before adding them as a new contact.
When you add a person like this, before you’re officially connected, you can also see their username, bio, your shared content, such as groups you’re both in, and you have the option of sharing a secret chat with them.
If you’re a member of a group chat along with people you don’t have in your contacts, you have another way of adding new contacts without asking for their number. Here’s how.
Even though Telegram provided a useful security measure by not allowing others to see your phone number, you can’t use the app without entering it at some point.
When creating an account, you need to give the app your number so you can be sent a code that activates it via SMS. However, people who aren’t your friends or family won’t be able to see your contact unless you willingly give them your number. The other way they can access your phone number is if you add them to your contact list. This means the power is in your hands, either way.
Private chats also allow you to hide your phone number. To adjust these settings, follow these steps:
Note that here you can also add exceptions to this rule by adding particular users on Always Allow or Never Allow lists. A whole group can be an exception.
Now you see me, now you don’t. Before hiding your phone number, bear in mind that there’s nothing you can do if another person has already saved your contact in their phone.
Today, it’s almost too easy to learn someone’s phone number. But with Telegram, you don’t need to waste your time investigating – knowing someone’s name is sometimes enough.
Do you add people to your contacts list by their username? Have you set a username for yourself? Share your thoughts in the comments section below!
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