It is very likely that sometimes we have to go through some difficulties that we do not know why they happen. And these problems, believe it or not, are very easy to solve, this is the case of WhatsApp, which can sometimes present complications that can drive me almost crazy. We are going to touch on one of them here and we are going to show you what we should do if the names of my contacts do not appear on WhatsApp on my cell phone.
Identifying our contacts on WhatsApp is of the utmost importance, it is even possible for you to put a profile picture on each of them. Although we know that its way of working is very easy, sometimes it is possible that it causes this kind of problems to its users. And sometimes this is due to misuse of the app and we don’t know how to reverse it. As we told you, its solution is easy and you will know what to do when the names of my contacts do not appear in WhatsApp on my cell phone.
There are extremely important aspects in the configurations of applications such as WhatsApp that for various reasons can present this complication. But just as this problem appeared, we will make it disappear, you just have to follow the steps that we show you here and apply it when the names of my contacts do not appear in WhatsApp on my cell phone.
The names of my contacts do not appear in WhatsApp on my cell phone
As you well know, the contact names are used to identify the people you have added on your mobile, you can even add emojis so that they can attract more attention. But this is a very common error that happens on smartphones, when the names of my contacts do not appear on WhatsApp on my cell phone. And we can only see the numbers, but we ask you not to be alarmed, because you are not going to lose your contacts, this problem has a solution and you will find it here.
The possible solutions, yes because I am going to teach you two ways to solve it, if one way does not work for you, surely the other way will. What you should do is the following, for the first solution we are going to go to our mobile team and in it we are going to select the Settings option.
Once this is done, we will see all the options that we can choose, but we will click on Accounts, then we will see all the accounts that we have added to our cell phone. But we are going to select the one that is giving us problems in our WhatsApp case. And here we are going to select Last Sync.
After pressing, the contacts option will appear, but we will go to the upper right part of the screen. And here we are going to find the icon of three vertical points, we are going to press and two options will appear. Synchronize now and Remove account, we are going to select the Remove account option.
When you do this, a box will appear with the following information Remove account? If you remove this account, all its messages and other data on the phone will be deleted. You will need to select the Remove Account option. Don’t worry about doing this, as your account will not be deleted.
Now we leave this window and go to the WhatsApp application, being in it we are going to press on the icon to send a message to a new person. Then the Contact, New group, New contact window will appear. But we are going to go back to the top right of the screen and click on the three-dot icon.
Several options will appear but we must select Update and in this way it should solve the problem of the names of my contacts not appearing in WhatsApp on my cell phone. If this way you do not solve your problems, you can apply the second solution that we are going to offer you and it is the following.
Solution for my contacts to appear in WhatsApp
To perform the following method, you are going to go to mobile and you are going to select the Settings option, you will find a series of options but you must choose Applications. Already being inside the application window, we are going to look for the one that interests us and it is WhatsApp. When we find it we must press to enter.
Being inside we are going to select the permissions option, there we are going to see several options but we will go to the top where the three points are and select. The All permissions option will appear and select it. Now you only have to restart your cell phone and in this way you will have solved the problem. Remember that you can modify or change the name of a contact on WhatsApp as many times as you consider necessary.
