How to Forward a WhatsApp Contact to Someone in Chat
There might be any number of reasons that you want to share WhatsApp contacts with someone in chat. Whatever the reason, it’s a matter of attaching the contact information to a chat message. Here’s how to do that.
How to Share a Contact in WhatsApp From Your iPhone Contacts List
Another way to share contacts on WhatsApp is directly from the contact list on your iPhone. This is handy if you have a contact on your phone that doesn’t show up on WhatsApp.
How to Share a Contact in WhatsApp from Your Android Contacts List
Sharing a contact to WhatsApp directly from your Android contacts is slightly different from iPhone, but it isn’t any more difficult.
Allowing Access to Contacts in WhatsApp
When you first set up your WhatsApp account, you may have synced your phone contacts with the app. But you also may have chosen not to. Before you can send contacts to other people on WhatsApp, you’ll need to allow contact syncing.
Allow Contact Syncing on iPhone: Go to Settings > Privacy > Contacts and confirm that WhatsApp is toggled on.Allow Contact Syncing on Android: Go to Settings > Accounts > WhatsApp > select the three-dot icon and tap Sync your WhatsApp. If you don’t find WhatsApp under Accounts, you’ll need to add it before you can sync your contacts.
Once you’ve synced your contacts, you can share any of them from your device to WhatsApp.
