WhatsApp: How to send contacts to other people

WhatsApp is one of the most popular instant messaging services today, an application that never stops updating and improving to support new forms of communication between users, even betting on its own app specially designed for PC, WhatsApp Web. But WhatsApp includes all kinds of characteristics that we may not know, basic tools that will be very useful to us and that are not so obvious to most users. One of them is the possibility of send contact information to other people on our personal list, either from WhatsApp itself or from the contact book of our smartphone.

Thus, we offer you a step by step guide to send contacts from the mobile application to another WhatsApp user, in addition to the best way to do the same from WhatsApp Web for PC, where here we can only send information from users of our own WhatsApp.

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How to send contacts from our smartphone

Sharing contacts with other WhatsApp users is not much different from sending any type of message, emoji or multimedia file. To do this, we must go to attach icon in the space where we write the messages, that is, the clip icon.

This way we will display the attachments pop-up window, we will see a series of icons that symbolize different types of elements, such as Document, Camera, Gallery, Audio, Location and Contact. In this case we are interested in the Contact icon.

Once we have accessed through Contact, a list will be displayed with all our contacts arranged in alphabetical order; If we have many contacts and we want to speed up the search, we can write the desired name through the search magnifying glass located at the top right of the screen.

Once we have selected the contact we want to send, all we have to do is click on the arrow located on the green “send” icon. Before we can select the different attributes of the contact to send, dialing or unmarking additional phone numbers or emails.

When we have sent the contact to the desired user through WhatsApp chat, a message balloon will appear with the contact and their profile photo. The user who receives said information will be able to contact that person by clicking directly on it., in addition to adding the contact to your calendar if you wish.

How to send contacts from WhatsApp Web on PC

If we are users of WhatsApp Web, the computer browser version of WhatsApp, we can send contacts to other users in a way quite similar to the mobile version, but with some subtle differences. The most basic is that our PC does not have the contacts from our mobile phonebook at its disposal, so We can only send the main phone number of a contact on our WhatsApp.

To do this, we just have to click on the attach icon, also represented by a clip and located in the upper right part of our chat window on PC. Several pop-up icons will be displayed and we must select Contact.

Once we have accessed, a new pop-up window will appear with the list of our WhatsApp contacts. We just have to choose one or more contacts and click on the send icon that will appear once we have selected them.

Unlike the mobile version, on PC we can only send the main phone number of a contact, which means No more information will appear to check or uncheck before sending said contact. Click the send button to share the contact with another WhatsApp user.