How to link your phone number to WeChat account?

It will be more difficult to register a new WeChat account than ever before since the WeChat official doesn’t allow us to register WeChat without providing a real phone number. And WeChat account could be blocked or frozen easily. Therefore, you need to keep your Wechat account safe enough. It’s a wise decision to link your real phone number to your WeChat account. There are only a few steps different between linking phone number, unlinking or changing phone number to WeChat account. So, keep reading to find what you want.

This article will show you how to link phone numbers and how to change linking phone numbers to WeChat.

Why you need to link your phone number to WeChat account?

Many WeChat users told me that their accounts got blocked. And they didn’t link their phone number to WeChat. If you want to use WeChat. do remember to link phone number to WeChat account before your account is blocked. Maybe you’re wondering how could be possible to create a WeChat account without linking phone numbers?

Actually, if your account was created at an early time, you could create account without a phone number. Or you can’t unlink the old phone number to WeChat without linking any new phone number to it.

Also, if your WeChat account is login via QQ number, not a phone number or WeChat ID, then it is possible that your account doesn’t link to any phone number.

In these cases, your account doesn’t link phone number might cause you to lose your WeChat account. So I strongly recommend you to link your phone number to it. (Update, you must link your phone number to WeChat.)

How do I link phone number to WeChat account?

  1. Open WeChat on your phone and log into your WeChat account.
  2. Click on [Me] in the bottom right -hand corner of the screen.
click me on wechat
  1. And then, click on [Settings] button.
click on [Settings] button
  1. Go to [Account Security] and click it.
Go to [Account Security] and click it
  1. Click [Phone] and then you will get into the link-mobile page.

If your phone number has been linked to your WeChat account, then you will see a green lock with a phone number next to the [Phone] button.

Click [Phone] and then you will get into the link-mobile page
  1. If you want to link your phone number to WeChat account then Click [Link Mobile]. If you want to change phone number then you can click [Change Moblie].

If your phone number has linked to your WeChat account. Then you will see the linked phone number on this screen. and you can change your mobile number to link your WeChat account just by clicking [Change Mobile] and doing as instructed.

NOTE:  you can link your phone number to only one WeChat ID. Once you’ve linked a phone number to WeChat, then you’re not able to unlink it but you can change to another. which means you can use another phone number to link your WeChat and the old phone number will be unlinked to your WeChat automatically, But your WeChat account will always be linked.

link your phone number

If you haven’t linked your phone number to WeChat account, then you will not see the screen as below.

Change phone number to link with

Sometimes you don’t use your old phone number anymore and you want to link your new phone number to your WeChat. You can follow the left steps as the following steps.

change phone number
  1. Choose your region and enter your phone number.

The verification code will be sent to this phone number. Make sure that you enter it correctly. After that, click [Next] in the top right-hand corner.

enter phone number
  1. Enter the verification code.

Click [OK] And then an SMS verification code will be sent to your phone number and enter the SMS verification code.

confirm
enter verification code

Thanks for reading. I really hope this will be helpful. Do as instructed and I think you will get what you want.

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If you have any questions, please comment below.

52 thoughts on “How to link your phone number to WeChat account?”

  1. Pursuant to Indian law we are unable to offer you WeChat at this time. We value each of our users, and data security and privacy are of utmost importance to us. We are engaging with relevant authorities and hope to be able to resume services in the future.

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  2. Hambeleleni Haufiku

    Help me I want to sign up on WeChat account what should I do please help me as soon as possible thank you in advance

  3. I have difficulty logging into my wechat account. Please help as much as you can . A very big thanks I appreciate

  4. Hello… My Wechat account was blocked temporary.. And my mobile phone number link with my Wechat account.. but my mobile phone number was stolen and i can’t get the code.. And now i can’t use my wechat account…

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