Use WhatsApp ~name rather than number as name when importing a WhatsApp-only contact
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James Crowley
When importing contacts from WhatsApp, any contacts not already in my contacts are added with their phone number as their name. Because they're now in my contacts, this hides their actual name (which appears as ~XYZin WhatsApp). It would be great if you can import their ~ name as their name in the automatically imported contact.
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Kasi Donga
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Support for WhatsApp Profile Names in Contact Sync
CJ
Currently, Dex can only pull saved contact names from the phone when syncing with WhatsApp. If a number is not saved, only the phone number is displayed, since WhatsApp does not expose the user-set “profile name” via sync. Users have requested the ability to see WhatsApp profile names automatically without manually saving each number in their phonebook.
This feature depends on WhatsApp providing access to profile name data via their API. If/when that becomes available, supporting it would save users significant time and improve contact management in Dex.
Kasi Donga
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WhatsApp Sync will now use the actual name (or username) as a fallback when a contact is not saved in the phone book. We recommend reconnecting your WhatsApp accounts to automatically update the names of existing contacts.
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Ritwik Manan
Guys we really need this fixed - all my contact names from whatsApp have all been overridden with phone numbers??
I was using the 2 way CardDAV sync that you guys have which might be exacerbating the problem!
Kasi Donga
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