{"id":239977,"date":"2026-06-30T07:15:57","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T12:15:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/whatsapp-is-finally-getting-usernames-to-help-keep-phone-numbers-private"},"modified":"2026-06-30T07:15:57","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T12:15:57","slug":"whatsapp-is-finally-getting-usernames-to-help-keep-phone-numbers-private","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/whatsapp-is-finally-getting-usernames-to-help-keep-phone-numbers-private","title":{"rendered":"WhatsApp is Finally Getting Usernames to Help Keep Phone Numbers Private"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/whatsapp-is-finally-getting-usernames-to-help-keep-phone-numbers-private.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>WhatsApp is rolling out username reservations globally, letting users reserve unique names before the privacy feature launches later this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WhatsApp is rolling out username reservations globally, letting users reserve unique names before the privacy feature launches later this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239977\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}