How to manage your contacts

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You can easily add new contacts and share, edit, or delete your existing contacts within WhatsApp. You’ll need to have WhatsApp contacts enabled on your mobile device to manage your contacts on Web or Desktop.
You can check if you have WhatsApp contacts turned on by going to your WhatsApp Settings > Privacy Settings > turn WhatsApp contacts on. Learn more about WhatsApp contacts in this help article.

Add a contact

There are several ways to add a contact. You can add a contact with a new chat, save someone’s number from a chat, or add contacts from a group.
If you have contact permissions enabled for your phone’s address book and WhatsApp contacts turned on, you can choose which contacts on WhatsApp to sync to your phone. You can check if you have contact permissions enabled by going to your phone’s Settings > WhatsApp > Contacts.

Add contact with a new chat

  1. Go to the Chats tab.
  2. Click new chat > New contact and enter details.
  3. Turn Sync contact to phone on if you want the contact to sync to your phone’s contacts.
  4. Click new chat

Add a contact from an existing chat

  1. Go to the Chats tab.
  2. Click a chat from a number you don't have saved. You should see a phone number rather than a name.
  3. Click new chat > Contact info.
  4. Click new chat and enter contact details.
  5. Turn Sync contact to phone on if you want the contact to sync to your phone’s contacts. Click new chat

Add a contact from a group

  1. Find a message from someone who isn't saved as a contact.
  2. Click the person's profile photo.
  3. Click new chat and enter contact details.
  4. Turn Sync contact to phone on if you want the contact to sync to your phone’s contacts. Click new chat

Edit a contact

  1. Go to the Chats tab and click the contact you want to edit.
  2. Click new chat > Contact info.
  3. Click new chat and edit details.
    • You can choose to turn Sync contact to phone on or off. If you turn it off, it will be deleted from your phone's address book and only saved in WhatsApp.
  4. Click new chat
Note: WhatsApp users set their own profile name and photo, so if a contact didn't set a profile photo, there's no way you can add one for that contact. Instead, you'll see an empty white profile on a gray background. In older versions of WhatsApp, the photo associated with that contact from your phone's address book would be displayed.

Delete a contact

  1. Go to the Chats tab and click the contact you want to delete.
  2. Click new chat > Contact info.
  3. Click new chat > new chat
  4. Click new chat > DELETE
  • Note: If you’ve synced this contact to your phone, it will be deleted from WhatsApp and from your phone’s address book.
Deleting a contact won't delete the chat history you have with them. You can learn how to delete a chat in this article.

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