How to Send WhatsApp Message Without Saving Contact? Or How to send WhatsApp message to unsaved contact or your own number? If you have been across this question, below is the simple step-by-step guide to do this.
Why do we need to send WhatsApp Message to unsaved contact or own number?
Sometimes, we need to keep note of something or capture a photo and we want to retrieve it easily next time. There are multiple ways to keep notes and store images that can be retrieved in future.
But, WhatsApp is now part of our daily life and considering most of people use WhatsApp for personal and business use as well, we need to store these messages and images in WhatsApp sometimes.
How WhatsApp works for sending messages?
Typically WhatsApp uses Phones Contacts saved on your phone and finds if they are on WhatsApp or not? If you need to send message to someone who is not part of your Contact Book, you need to save that persons number in your Phone’s contact books. Then resync or refresh the list of contacts on WhatsApp and send message.
How you can Store Notes or Images in WhatsApp for easy future retrieval?
Well, you can’t memorize and search on multiple apps for things when required.
Consider, if you have shared important notes, images to some contact on WhatsApp and you can go to that chat history and pull them easily. Now, here comes privacy and trust issue. You may not have that much trusted person or contact with whom you can share everything.
But, you can share with yourself, right?
How to send WhatsApp message to unsaved contact or yourself?
Well, there is no direct method to send message to your number from WhatsApp. But with the help of third party tools or Official WhatsApp API we can send message to ourself (same number).
Process to Send WhatsApp message to own number – Method 1
- Install small app called Click to Chat. (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.trianguloy.openInWhatsapp)
[There are multiple apps which do the job, this one is very small in size and no Ads, so we choose this app.]
2. Enter your own number with Country Code and Click on Open, it will open WhatsApp and you can send message to yourself.
3. Once you send any message to your own number, it will be part of Chat History and you don’t need to repeat above steps every-time.
Process to Send WhatsApp message to own number – Method 2
- Click on below link and add your number replacing text after + sign.
https://api.whatsapp.com/send?phone=+(PUT_YOUR_NUMBER_WITH_COUNTRY_CODE)
2. Once you clicked above link, if will open in New Tab and ask for permission to open WhatsApp. If you are accessing this link on Desktop and If you have installed WhatsApp on your Desktop Computer, it will ask you to open WhatsApp.
If you are on Smartphone, it will directly open WhatsApp or WhatsApp Business and you can send a message and now that number will be part of your chat history and you don’t need to repeat above steps every-time.
Once, you have send your message, you can now send message to your own number and store any image or notes and when needed, you just need to open your WhatsApp and select chat history with your own number and all things will be there.
How to Send WhatsApp Message to Unsaved contact?
Simply change number in one of the above methods to send message to anyone. Only condition is that person should be WhatsApp user.
This is a very basic and simple tip for WhatsApp users but still many users don’t know about this. If you find this article helpful, consider sharing on social media so others can also take benefit.
