NeedElp: > I thought Whatsapp does not have a feature to hide your phone number? It’s a recent feature. faq.whatsapp.com ### About usernames | WhatsApp Help Center You must be aware that Whatsapp still needs your phone number in order to work and the people that knows your number could still find and contact you on Whatsapp. The username is useful when you want to avoid giving your number to new people and still be able to contact them. In this case your number is not visible in the one-on-one chat. It is not useful if you’re trying to avoid giving your personal number to Meta. NeedElp: > All I want to use WhatsApp without it having a link to me and my personal information from bad actors looking to seek that out. You probably also want to enable the Strict account user setting. faq.whatsapp.com ### How to use Strict account settings | WhatsApp Help Center NeedElp: > Also if you could help me with my other question I posted that would be much appreciated. I need to know how to purchase a non-voip sms service without using my credit card. Can’t help with that, sorry.