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By popular request, #Voiceover no longer reads phone numbers of #WhatsApp group participants who aren’t in your contacts, and just reads the push name. You can still read the phone number on their contact info page, or by swiping up to the “message <phone number>” option in the actions rotor. This should make catching up with your groups much faster and more efficient! Thanks so much for your feedback, please keep sending it.

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in reply to Drew Mochak

amazing stuff! If this could please come to android also, that would be double awesome!
in reply to Drew Mochak

Wo! So happy to read this has finally been implemented. Thanks to the team for getting this launched!
in reply to Drew Mochak

I'm not trying to criticize, just asking, but... why didn't this happen earlier?

What was the actual reasoning behind keeping it the way it was for so long? What were the blockers for this change?

I usually don't believe in the "people are stupid and don't know what they're doing" excuse, so there had to be something to it, right?