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How does Whatsapp verify your phone number?

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Post by narayanb » Tue, Jun 03, 2014, 9:50 AM UTC

I see most of the times whatsapp does not even send you an SMS (I don't see any SMS in the messages app). Then how do they verify the phone number?

Re: How does Whatsapp verify your phone number?

Post by ankurdhama » Tue, Jun 03, 2014, 10:32 AM UTC

May be the app delete the SMS as soon as it is done with the verification.