{"id":372117,"date":"2026-07-11T13:04:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T20:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/?p=372117"},"modified":"2026-07-11T13:04:32","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T20:04:32","slug":"whatsapp-beta-could-add-birthday-reminders-alerts-for-your-contacts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/whatsapp-beta-could-add-birthday-reminders-alerts-for-your-contacts\/","title":{"rendered":"WhatsApp beta could add birthday reminders: alerts for your contacts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Recent <a href=\"https:\/\/whatsapp.en.softonic.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\">WhatsApp beta<\/a> builds on <a href=\"https:\/\/android-studio.en.softonic.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Android<\/a> point to a <strong>birthday reminder feature<\/strong> that\u2019s still in the works. If it ships, the app would start nudging you about your contacts\u2019 important dates, a bit like the birthday alerts people already know from Facebook. So far, though, there\u2019s still no public release date.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sc-card-program\">\r\n  <div class=\"sc-card-program__body\">\r\n    <div class=\"sc-card-program__row clearfix\">\r\n      <div class=\"sc-card-program__col-logo\">\r\n        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sc-card-program__img\" alt=\"WhatsApp\" src=\"https:\/\/images.sftcdn.net\/images\/t_app-icon-s\/p\/cc03a0ea-96d0-11e6-9905-00163ed833e7\/118211825\/whatsapp-download-whatsapp.jpg\" width=\"100px\" height=\"100px\">\r\n      <\/div>\r\n      <div class=\"sc-card-program__col-title\">\r\n        <span class=\"sc-card-program__title\">WhatsApp<\/span>\r\n        <a class=\"sc-card-program__button sc-card-program-internal\" href=\"https:\/\/whatsapp.en.softonic.com\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Download<\/a>\r\n      <\/div>\r\n      <div class=\"sc-card-program__col-rating\">\r\n        <svg class=\"rating-score__content\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" version=\"1.1\" x=\"0\" y=\"0\" viewbox=\"0 0 50 50\" enable-background=\"new 0 0 50 50\" xml:space=\"preserve\"><path class=\"rating-score__background rating-score--good\" fill=\"none\" stroke-width=\"6\" stroke-miterlimit=\"10\" d=\"M40 40c8.3-8.3 8.3-21.7 0-30s-21.7-8.3-30 0 -8.3 21.7 0 30\"><\/path><path class=\"rating-score__value rating-score__value--0\" fill=\"none\" stroke-width=\"6\" stroke-dashoffset=\"0\" stroke-miterlimit=\"10\" d=\"M40 40c8.3-8.3 8.3-21.7 0-30s-21.7-8.3-30 0 -8.3 21.7 0 30\"><\/path><text class=\"rating-score__number\" content=\"\" text-anchor=\"middle\" transform=\"matrix(1 0 0 1 25 31.0837)\" data-auto=\"app-user-score\"><\/text><\/svg>\r\n      <\/div>\r\n    <\/div>\r\n    <div class=\"sc-card-program__row\">\r\n      <span class=\"sc-card-program__description\"><\/span>\r\n    <\/div>\r\n    <div class=\"sc-card-program__row\">\r\n      <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sc-card-program__bigpic\" src=\"\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\">\r\n    <\/div>\r\n    <a class=\"sc-card-program__link track-link sc-card-program-internal\" href=\"https:\/\/whatsapp.en.softonic.com\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/a>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From the early beta reports, it looks like you\u2019d get a <strong>separate Birthdays section<\/strong> with upcoming dates listed in order, plus reminders inside the app when the day actually arrives. It\u2019s a small addition, but on a service Meta says more than 3 billion people use, that kind of feature could land differently, especially in places like India, Brazil, and Indonesia.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Those same reports suggest <a href=\"https:\/\/whatsapp.en.softonic.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\">WhatsApp<\/a> may draw that information either from birthdays already saved in your phone contacts or from <strong>birth dates<\/strong> some people have previously shared for age verification or legal compliance. What\u2019s less clear right now is how accurate that data would be, and what privacy settings people would have over who gets to see it.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For people who use WhatsApp as their default way to talk every day, this one <strong>deserves attention<\/strong>. The app keeps picking up more business features, more privacy settings, and work on optional usernames.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Right now, the feature only shows up in recent WhatsApp beta builds on Android, and there\u2019s still <strong>no public release date<\/strong>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recent WhatsApp beta builds on Android point to a birthday reminder feature that\u2019s still in the works. If it ships, the app would start nudging you about your contacts\u2019 important dates, a bit like the birthday alerts people already know from Facebook. So far, though, there\u2019s still no public release date. From the early beta &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/whatsapp-beta-could-add-birthday-reminders-alerts-for-your-contacts\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;WhatsApp beta could add birthday reminders: alerts for your contacts&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9337,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[1015],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-372117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9337"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=372117"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":372118,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372117\/revisions\/372118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372117"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=372117"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=372117"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=372117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}