To be able to start a chat with a person on WhatsAppyou need to have his number saved in the phonebook. Only this way when you press the + buttonto start a new conversation, tick the contact you want to message with. Different story however when they are other people writing to you for the first time.
In fact, it may happen that a user has obtained your number, saved it on their phone and contacted you. In your WhatsApp chats screen, you will see appear the message sent from an unknown number. If you have decided to save it directly from the Meta app but you can’t complete the operation, maybe you are doing something wrong.
How to save a number from WhatsApp
In recent weeks, several users have been complaining about an apparent bugs in WhatsApp. Are iPhonein fact, when you press on a telephone number to save it in the address book, the operation is not successful. Or rather, a confirmation notice is shown on the messaging app, but then when you go to the address book you notice it that there is no contact.
What to do in these cases? Very often, we forget to complete some steps. So let’s see how to save a number from WhatsApp, the procedure is the same from both iPhone and Android. First things first, open the chat with the unknown number and then tap the phone number at the top, in the chat title bar.
At this point, select the option “Add contact” o “Salva“. You will have to decide whether to create a new contact from scratch or add the number to an existing contact. You can now enter all the details you prefer between name, surname, email address and so on. After finishing, press “Salva” and that’s it.
What to do if the number is not saved
You have followed all these steps but, despite this, the number is not saved in your phone’s address book? Then WhatsApp probably just added it in your Contacts list of the application, what is shown to you when you want to start a new chat.
If you want to resolve and also have the contact on your smartphone, you can do this. First open WhatsApp and select the conversation with the unknown number. Now press on the top bar where the number e is the contact card will open. Instead of pressing up Add contacttap on the phone number e copy it.
Then close WhatsApp, open the Phone app and access the keypad. Paste the unknown phone number and from here follow the classic procedure for save a new contact in the address book. Nothing could be simpler, this way you will be sure to have the address with all the information also present on your device.
