Meta has announced that it will replace the contact-saving system on WhatsApp.
In general, WhatsApp stores the same contacts as your primary phone, and it is not possible to save WhatsApp contacts to other linked devices. If the phone is lost or damaged, then these contacts have to be saved again on WhatsApp.
Now, however, the contact manager feature will be introduced in WhatsApp, under which all contacts will be saved directly in the App, and the user will not need to save them again if they lose or change the phone.
This feature will be rolled out first to WhatsApp Web and its Windows app in the next few weeks, followed by an eventual possibility to save contacts to other linked devices as well.
The new technology, Identity Proof Linked Storage (IPLS), will be used to bring about this change. Under this technology, the names and numbers stored in WhatsApp will be encrypted, and you will have access only to them.
