How to Find Contacts on WhatsApp

This article shows you how to find WhatsApp users in your phone contacts. To find a WhatsApp user, the person you are looking for must be in your phone book; you cannot find WhatsApp users who are not in your contacts.

Table of Contents

On iPhone and iPad

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Open WhatsApp by tapping the app with a white phone and chat frame icon on a green background.

If WhatsApp does not automatically sign in to your account, follow the instructions to register a phone number.
You cannot use WhatsApp to find contacts that are not in your contacts.

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Tap Chats with the chat box icon at the bottom of the screen.

If WhatsApp shows a chat, you’ll tap the “Back” button in the upper-left corner of the screen.

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Touch the button

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“New Chat” (New Chat). It’s a blue square with a pencil in the top right corner of the screen. This will open the contacts page.

You will see WhatsApp contacts displayed on this page.

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Find a contact person. Scroll through the list of WhatsApp users on this page until you find the person you’re looking for.

You can also type the name of the person you are looking for in the search bar at the top of the screen.
For those who have not used WhatsApp, you can invite them to use it by scrolling to the bottom of the list and tapping Invite Friends to WhatsApp , choosing how to send the invitation, tapping the contact that you want to invite, and then select Done at the bottom of the screen.

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Select contact person. Tap the name of the person you want to chat, voice call, or video call. This will open a chat pane allowing you to start chatting with them.

You cannot find people who are not in the contacts list.
You can add a contact if you know their phone number.

On Android

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Open WhatsApp by tapping the app with a white phone and chat frame icon on a green background.

If WhatsApp does not automatically sign in to your account, follow the instructions to register a phone number.
You cannot use WhatsApp to find contacts that are not in your contacts.

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Tap and CHATS (Conversations) near the top of the screen to open this page.

If WhatsApp shows a chat, you’ll tap the “Back” button in the upper-left corner of the screen.

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Tap the “New Chat” button. It’s a green round button with a chat box icon displayed in the lower right corner of the screen. This will open the contact list.

All WhatsApp contacts in your contacts will appear here.

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Find a contact person. Drag through the list of usernames on this page until you find someone you want to chat with.

You can also type the contact’s name into the search bar at the top of the screen.
If the contact is not using WhatsApp, you will scroll down to the bottom of the list and select Invite Friends to WhatsApp , choose how to send the invitation, touch the contact you want to invite and select Done (Done) at the bottom of the screen.

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Select contact person. Tap the name of the contact you want to chat, voice call, or video call. This will open a chat pane allowing you to start chatting with them.

You cannot find people who are not in the contacts list.
You can add a contact if you know their phone number.

Advice

To add a WhatsApp user to your WhatsApp contacts, you must add that person’s phone number to your iPhone or Android’s contacts app.

Warning

You cannot contact someone on WhatsApp without their phone number in your contacts.

Steps

On iPhone and iPad

On Android

Advice

Warning

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