WhatsApp

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If a number calls you on WhatsApp (not a normal telephone call, it must be on WhatsApp) and you don’t have their number saved as a contact, will it come up as a number or with their WhatsApp name?

I am very suspicious about my partners behaviour and he received a call yesterday with a female name. He missed the call and explained that he doesn’t know who she is. But it came up with a name and I assumed it would come up with her number, as she’s allegedly not a contact.

My WhatsApp comes up with the contact name in my phone - for example "Hubs" rather than my husbands name.
Sorry this may not be the answer you wanted.

I know that you can call someone who is not a contact from WhatsApp, if the person you are calling on there does not have your number saved it just shows as a number. I get spam calls on there quite a lot and just shows the number.

It mostly comes up with numbers, but I have had those fishing scam callers that have a name and a beautiful woman avatar, and she is unaccountably lonely, rich, in my vicinity and thinks we would get on.....

My partner says he does not have her number saved and doesn’t know who she is. But when they called him yesterday, it came up with a name. Hope that makes sense

Spam calls notwithstanding it'd show up with just a number if he doesn't have the contact saved, and a name and picture if he does. So it's either one of those stupid spambots, or it's someone whose contact details he has saved on his WhatsApp.

You should test it. Remove someone from your contracts, ideally a female who has got their full name saved in their WhatsApp, and ask them to call you on WhatsApp. Then you'll know if it comes up with their name or just phone number.

I did. It came up with the number but he’s insisting that he has no idea who this person is

Sorry, that was to @CitrusSquad

I think it's possible, OP. Just checked my WhatsApp history and there are a couple of messages from people I don't have as a contact but the message has a name attached. (One was a lady I met on holiday who kindly took a photo of us and sent it. I definitely didn't set her name as I didn't even know how to spell it!)

Sounds like you are already suspicious though, so it may be that in this instance you are justified if you have other grounds for suspicion also.

Well... you either give him benefit of a doubt or just call that number back (from his phone 🤔)

Unless you have reasons to think he is doing something shady on the side... then perhaps you need to have different conversation.
That's what I would do anyway.

It’s possible in WhatsApp because I get spam calls and messages with names on from companies I have used in the past.

Today I got one from Pierre……who apparently works for a rug cleaning company I used two years ago.

Good thing my DH wasn’t here or he’d think I have a French lover on the back burner.

If they aren’t a saved contact it just comes up with the number, but if they have Whatsapp then you’re able to see their photo etc alongside the number.

Pierre even sent me a chat message as follow-up and is on a first name basis with me too 😄

He is not a contact of mine in WhatsApp.

Thanks everyone. Really helpful - so a chance he’s telling the truth then. No reason to doubt him but my spidey senses were tingling and when I tested it, it showed a different result!

if it came up as a name just go into his contacts and see if that name is there.

@KaleQueen he could have deleted her as a contact though since this happened

If he was having an affair, he would most likely have saved their number as something innocuous, like Bob the builder, not their real name.

If I get a call on what’s app that isn’t a contact I’ve saved, it comes up just the number.

Hmmm. Maybe. Can you get the number, put it into your Wattsapp. If she’s on there and a genuine user her name and profile pic will come up

It can come up with a name if they are using whatsapp 👍 usually comes up with number & name, depends how you have set your account details x

If the person has a WhatsApp “username” set, their name will appear when you receive a call even if you don’t have their number saved.

Same as when in a group chat, unknown contacts appear with their number and then a little gray-ish “ ~[username] “ whenever they send a message.

These can also appear on notification previews as message from “Paul” even though you’ve never texted Paul in his life - but Paul has set his own WhatsApp account with that name (instead of just leaving it clear with only a number) so that’s why it appears like that.

Hope that makes sense OP. Yes, there’s a chance he’s telling the truth. I’d be more concerned about whether he was trying to act defensive, instead of genuinely trying to explain to you what was going on.

If you don't trust him you should finish with him. People in a healthy relationship would just brush this off by itself as nothing.

I got a message from 'Evangeline' looking for sexy fun a few weeks ago. No idea who she is, not on my contacts, blonde and under 30 from the photo. Deleted it.