Instead, creating a WhatsApp number list involves building an audience of users who have explicitly opted in to receive messages from you or your business.
Here's how to ethically and effectively create a WhatsApp number list, broken down by personal and business use:
A. For Personal Use (Managing Your Contacts)
This is about how your personal WhatsApp uses your phone's existing contacts.
How it works: WhatsApp automatically syncs with your smartphone's address book. If a phone number you save in your phone's contacts is also registered on WhatsApp, that person will whatsapp number list automatically appear in your WhatsApp contact list. You don't "create a list" within WhatsApp itself, but rather manage your phone's contacts.
How to do it: Simply add the person's phone number (including international dialing code, e.g., +880 for Bangladesh) to your phone's native contact application. WhatsApp will then show them in your app.
Add Contacts Manually in WhatsApp:
How it works: You can also add a new contact directly within the WhatsApp app. This action will typically also save the contact to your phone's address book.
How to do it:
Open WhatsApp.
Tap the "New Chat" icon (usually a speech bubble or a pencil/plus sign, often in the bottom right corner on Android or top right on iOS).
Select "New Contact."
Enter the person's name and their phone number (with the full international code).
Tap "Save" or "Done."
Use WhatsApp's "Broadcast Lists" (Limited Personal Use):