Meta Platforms Inc.’s META WhatsApp has rolled out a new feature that allows users to verify their accounts via email. This new update comes as an alternative to the SMS verification method.

As noted by WABetaInfo, version 23.24.70 of WhatsApp for iPhone, released today on the App Store, adds the email verification feature. This option doesn’t replace SMS verification, but it works ...

WhatsApp is expanding its security features by testing an email-based user verification system, which should soon be available to more users. The email verification system is an optional feature ...

Email is a cheap form of reaching out to a mass audience; SMS marketing is used to notify users of sales and offers and WhatsApp is the most effective of the three mediums - interacting directly ...

WhatsApp has started allowing users to authenticate their account on a device with an email address as an alternative to using a phone number, for times when cellular coverage is poor. The new ...

But a discovery in WhatsApp’s beta release for Android indicates that Meta might also let people associate an email address with their phone number in the near future. The feature likely won’t ...

In a significant move towards accessibility and convenience, WhatsApp has introduced a feature that allows users to regain access to their accounts via email, eliminating the need for SMS ...

SAN JOSE: WhatsApp is now letting users add their email addresses to the chat app – but should you be giving this up to Meta so easily? After all, this is the company that lost the data ...