How to reserve and change your WhatsApp username

如何预留和更改您的 WhatsApp 用户名

Meta-owned chat app WhatsApp started to roll out username reservations for its 3 billion users earlier in June. The username feature is not active, but you can claim your username and start using it whenever the feature becomes available this year. Meta 旗下的聊天应用 WhatsApp 于 6 月初开始为其 30 亿用户推出用户名预留功能。目前该用户名功能尚未正式激活，但您可以先认领您的用户名，待该功能今年晚些时候正式上线后即可使用。

With usernames, people will be able to share their WhatsApp contact without having to disclose their phone number. This could be useful for people who want others to contact them on WhatsApp but don’t want to share their information or their phone number. For businesses, it might be easier to share a name than a phone number to their customers. 通过用户名，用户无需透露电话号码即可分享其 WhatsApp 联系方式。对于那些希望别人通过 WhatsApp 联系自己，但又不想分享个人信息或电话号码的用户来说，这非常有用。对于企业而言，分享用户名往往比分享电话号码更方便。

Here is how you can reserve your username: Go to Settings > Account and tap on the Username option under the “Your Account” section. If you are setting up your username for the first time, you will get a “Create username” option, and then you can type in and choose your username. If the username you chose is not available, WhatsApp will suggest some variations if you tap the “suggest a username” option. 以下是预留用户名的方法：进入“设置” > “账号”，点击“您的账号”部分下的“用户名”选项。如果您是首次设置用户名，系统会显示“创建用户名”选项，随后您可以输入并选择您的用户名。如果您选择的用户名已被占用，点击“建议用户名”选项后，WhatsApp 会为您提供一些备选方案。

WhatsApp is reserving certain usernames of public figures and entities, so you won’t be able to reserve them for yourself. If you already have a Facebook or an Instagram username, you can log in through either of the services and reserve your handle as a username too. WhatsApp 会预留部分公众人物和实体的用户名，因此您无法抢注这些名称。如果您已经拥有 Facebook 或 Instagram 用户名，也可以通过这些服务登录，并将您的账号名称预留为 WhatsApp 用户名。

Once you set the username, you can go to the same menu and change it by tapping on the “Edit” button in the top right-hand corner. Alternatively, you can delete your username. 设置完成后，您可以随时进入同一菜单，点击右上角的“编辑”按钮进行更改。此外，您也可以选择删除您的用户名。

WhatsApp also allows for an extra layer of protection with a username key. You can limit people who contact you from “Everyone” to “People who know my key” from the username menu. This means that people who know your username will also type in a four-digit key before contacting you for the first time. Users can save the key or generate a new key at any time. WhatsApp 还通过“用户名密钥”提供了额外的保护层。您可以在用户名菜单中将联系人权限从“所有人”更改为“知道我密钥的人”。这意味着知道您用户名的人在首次联系您之前，还必须输入一个四位数的密钥。用户可以随时保存该密钥或生成新密钥。

The username feature will go live in the coming weeks. Until then, WhatsApp is only allowing people to claim their usernames to avoid duplication. 该用户名功能将在未来几周内正式上线。在此之前，WhatsApp 仅允许用户先认领用户名，以避免名称重复。