Let’s learn how to send a WhatsApp to someone without having to add their number to your iPhone’s address book.
WhatsApp and its user accounts linked to phone numbers have a small peculiarity: If you want to write a message to someone, you must have their number added to your address book. Therefore, when you write to a new contact, you must make the gesture of adding them to the address book before opening WhatsApp.
However, there is a little trick to skip this requirement, which can be very useful in cases of sending messages to people to whom we will only attend once for whatever reason. It all lies in a small web address offered by the WhatsApp API.
How to send a WhatsApp to someone without having to add their number to your iPhone’s address book?
Sending a WhatsApp through a short URL
Imagine you want to send a WhatsApp, but it is something punctual and you don’t want to have to add that number to the address book just to be able to send that message. You can avoid it: Instead of doing that you can open Safari on the iPhone and type the following address:
The structure is as follows: “wa. me/”, followed by the international prefix of the prefix and finally the phone number. You can also type it in the browser of any other mobile device or computer, although you will then need to be logged into a WhatsApp Web instance.
This little trick can save you many visits in the iPhone contact book, or even simplify the task of offering to send messages via WhatsApp through a link on a website you manage.
