Hike Now Has An Essential Feature Which is Missing on WhatsApp

Hike Adds An Essential Feature Which is Missing on WhatsApp

Although I personally adopt using Telegram, I accept to use WhatsApp because most of my friends and family members are on it. Andeven though WhatsApp is good enough for most of my messaging needs, there are some situations where the service but breaks down.

For case, like everybody else, I like to keep my number private. But I am forced to give out my number to strangers simply so we tin connect on WhatsApp. Even if information technology's a quondam thing, my number is now forever saved on their smartphone.

But, if yous are on Hike, yous now have a way out of this forced sharing of numbers. Co-ordinate to a BGR report, Hike has just started to coil out a new update which allows you to chat with someone without giving out your number. Hike does that by creating what the company is calling a Hike ID. Simply share your Hike ID with someone and you can chat with them without sharing your number.

At present, it's not a novel characteristic as both Telegram and BBM have had this for years now. That said, both these services are not so popular in India, where the market is dominated by WhatsApp. That'southward why Hike has an advantage here, as the well-nigh of the company's 50 million user base of operations is in Republic of india, and this feature tin can help the service to expand its user base in the country. Hike also has an reward of having a adequately immature user base of operations which is definitely going to beloved and utilise this feature more.

In fact, according to Hike, in a survey conducted by the company with over 1 million users, 69% respondent said that they would similar to talk to people without sharing their phone number. Listening to its user base, Hike decided to launch the Hike ID characteristic which not just saves users from the hassle of sharing or saving phone numbers but also make it really easy to add someone new to their chat.

Hike has released the service for its Android users with the release for iOS users to follow soon. That said, I still haven't received the update so it might be a few days before the update is rolled out for all the devices.