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There is no way to create a group, list one, add or remove participants, manage admins, or read an invite link, and no documented way to obtain a group id in the first place.","groups_unsupported","Paraphrase (not a verbatim quote), read from the Cloud API reference index on the checked date: the reference covers sending messages to WhatsApp users and managing message templates; no group node or edge appears in it. The messages reference does list a group recipient type, but no endpoint returns or creates a group id, so the value cannot be obtained.","https:\u002F\u002Fdevelopers.facebook.com\u002Fdocs\u002Fwhatsapp\u002Fcloud-api\u002Freference",{"checked":11,"claim":17,"cost_label":18,"key":19,"quote":20,"source_url":21},"A business may send free-form messages only inside a 24-hour customer service window that the user opens by messaging or calling. Once the window closes, only pre-approved template messages may be sent.","Writing to someone first","template_and_24h_window","\"When a WhatsApp user messages you or calls you, a 24-hour timer called a customer service window starts.\" and \"When the window closes, you can only send pre-approved template messages.\" (both verbatim)","https:\u002F\u002Fdevelopers.facebook.com\u002Fdocs\u002Fwhatsapp\u002Fcloud-api\u002Fguides\u002Fsend-messages",{"checked":11,"claim":23,"cost_label":24,"key":25,"quote":26,"source_url":27},"Meta charges for the WhatsApp Business Platform per message rather than per conversation. The earlier per-conversation model was replaced on 1 July 2025, so any comparison written before that date is out of date; free entry point windows remain an exception.","Every message you send","per_message_pricing","\"Effective July 1, 2025, Meta charges on a per-message basis\" (verbatim). The same page describes Free Entry Point windows, which stay open for 72 hours and carry no charge for messages sent while open.","https:\u002F\u002Fdevelopers.facebook.com\u002Fdocs\u002Fwhatsapp\u002Fpricing",{"checked":11,"claim":29,"cost_label":30,"key":31,"quote":32,"source_url":33},"Apps that need advanced access to Meta's permissions may have to complete Business Verification, a process in which Meta collects information to verify the business entity. It is a real onboarding step with a real elapsed time, and it has no equivalent when you link a number you already own.","Getting onto the platform","business_verification","\"As of February 1, 2023, if your app requires advanced level access to permissions, you might need to complete Business Verification.\" and \"Business Verification is a process that allows us to gather information about you and your Business so we can verify your identity as a business entity.\" (both verbatim)","https:\u002F\u002Fdevelopers.facebook.com\u002Fdocs\u002Fdevelopment\u002Frelease\u002Fbusiness-verification",[35,39,42],{"a":36,"q":37,"source":38},"To stop group and channel participation from exposing everybody's phone number to everybody else. It is a privacy improvement for users, and a real migration cost for anyone whose automation assumed the sender of a group message is always a number they can look up.","Why did WhatsApp introduce linked identities?","features.json",{"a":40,"q":41,"source":38},"It is stable for a given account, which is what makes it useful as a key. Treat it the way you would treat any external identifier: store it, index on it, and do not try to parse meaning out of it. If the account itself goes away, so does the identity.","Is a LID stable over time?",{"a":43,"q":44,"source":38},"In contexts where the identity is the participant - inside a group, for instance - yes. Starting a fresh one-to-one conversation from an identity alone is not something to rely on, so resolve to a phone number when you need to open a new thread, and expect that to sometimes be impossible.","Can I message someone using only their LID?",{"name":46,"slug":47,"url":48},"LID to Phone","lid-to-phone","\u002Fwhatsapp-api\u002Flid-to-phone\u002F",{"checked":11,"doc_url":50,"quote":51},"https:\u002F\u002Fdevelopers.facebook.com\u002Fdocs\u002Fwhatsapp\u002Fcloud-api\u002Freference\u002Fmessages","Paraphrase (not a verbatim quote), checked against the Cloud API messages reference: recipients are addressed by phone number and the platform returns its own identifier for a customer; no linked-identity resolution endpoint appears in the reference.","There is nothing to work around, because the official platform has no groups or channels where a linked identity would appear. The trade is that it also cannot see those conversations at all.",{"alternatives":54,"glossary":55,"matrix":65,"pillar":48},[],[56,59,62],{"title":57,"url":58},"LID","\u002Fglossary\u002Flid\u002F",{"title":60,"url":61},"JID","\u002Fglossary\u002Fjid\u002F",{"title":63,"url":64},"Group admin","\u002Fglossary\u002Fgroup-admin\u002F","\u002Fvs-cloud-api\u002F",{"breadcrumb":67,"canonical":75,"description":76,"h1":77,"lastmod":11,"title":78},[68,71,73],{"name":69,"url":70},"Home","\u002F",{"name":72,"url":65},"vs Cloud API",{"name":46,"url":74},"\u002Fvs-cloud-api\u002Flid-to-phone\u002F","https:\u002F\u002Fwapito.com\u002Fvs-cloud-api\u002Flid-to-phone\u002F","Not applicable. The official API never shows you a LID. What Meta's own documentation says, the official workaround and how Wapito resolve LIDs instead.","Can the official WhatsApp API resolve LIDs?","Can the Official WhatsApp API Resolve LIDs? | Wapito","Not applicable. The official API never shows you a LID.","t4","Meta's Cloud API hands a business an identifier for the customer in a conversation it already manages, so the mapping problem does not arise there - but neither does the capability. There is no official endpoint that takes a linked identity and returns a phone number, because the official platform never exposes linked identities in the first place.",{"availability":4,"ban_risk":5,"curl":83,"method":86,"operationId":87,"path":88,"summary":89,"tag":90,"url":91},{"code":84,"lang":85},"curl --request GET \\\n  --url 'https:\u002F\u002Fapi.wapito.com\u002Fv1\u002Fcontacts\u002F+15551234567\u002Flid' \\\n  --header 'Authorization: Bearer wpt_YOUR_TOKEN'","bash","GET","getContactLid","\u002Fcontacts\u002F{id}\u002Flid","Resolve a phone number to a LID","contacts","\u002Fdocs\u002Fapi\u002Fcontacts\u002Fget-contact-lid\u002F",[93],{"label":94,"id":94,"lang":85,"code":84,"html":95},"curl","\u003Cpre class=\"shiki shiki-themes github-light-default github-dark-default\" style=\"background-color:#ffffff;--shiki-dark-bg:#0d1117;color:#1f2328;--shiki-dark:#e6edf3\" tabindex=\"0\">\u003Ccode>\u003Cspan class=\"line\">\u003Cspan style=\"color:#953800;--shiki-dark:#FFA657\">curl\u003C\u002Fspan>\u003Cspan style=\"color:#0550AE;--shiki-dark:#79C0FF\"> --request\u003C\u002Fspan>\u003Cspan style=\"color:#0A3069;--shiki-dark:#A5D6FF\"> GET\u003C\u002Fspan>\u003Cspan style=\"color:#CF222E;--shiki-dark:#FF7B72\"> \\\u003C\u002Fspan>\u003C\u002Fspan>\n\u003Cspan class=\"line\">\u003Cspan style=\"color:#0550AE;--shiki-dark:#79C0FF\">  --url\u003C\u002Fspan>\u003Cspan style=\"color:#0A3069;--shiki-dark:#A5D6FF\"> 'https:\u002F\u002Fapi.wapito.com\u002Fv1\u002Fcontacts\u002F+15551234567\u002Flid'\u003C\u002Fspan>\u003Cspan style=\"color:#CF222E;--shiki-dark:#FF7B72\"> \\\u003C\u002Fspan>\u003C\u002Fspan>\n\u003Cspan class=\"line\">\u003Cspan style=\"color:#0550AE;--shiki-dark:#79C0FF\">  --header\u003C\u002Fspan>\u003Cspan style=\"color:#0A3069;--shiki-dark:#A5D6FF\"> 'Authorization: Bearer wpt_YOUR_TOKEN'\u003C\u002Fspan>\u003C\u002Fspan>\u003C\u002Fcode>\u003C\u002Fpre>",1790464905160]