How to Downgrade WhatsApp Business API Number?

The method for deleting a WhatsApp business API account is different for organizations using WhatsApp business API. Companies must target their WhatsApp business solution provider to downgrade their WhatsApp business API number. 

If you are a Getgabs user, you may cancel the WhatsApp API billing membership anytime by contacting our team. Our team will help you downgrade the WhatsApp business API number. 

Suppose you leverage WhatsApp business API and want to return to the official WhatsApp business. In that case, you can downgrade the number in the Facebook business manager. This does not only involve deleting WhatsApp or WhatsApp business apps. 

Note: The API may not be deleted until 30 days after the last paid message. Once the number has been deleted, it may be used in the regular WhatsApp app or registered with the WhatsApp API.

What is WhatsApp Business API Number?

WhatsApp Business API is the contact number for a large audience. The API is generally used for medium—to large-sized businesses and software applications. This integration enables us to send messages, provide customer support, and provide customized notifications. 

Utilizing a WhatsApp business account allows people to schedule free messaging, share media, etc. However, this is more suited for personal use when arranging group or one-on-one meetings. 

WhatsApp Business API allows users to utilize its features and benefits, which are specially designed for scheduling business meetings. Through a WhatsApp Business API number, you can use WhatsApp automation, share unlimited broadcasts, and send messages with sessions and various message templates. 

Using a WhatsApp Business API number, you can boost your business’s conversations around the globe, engage with solutions such as CRM or other solution providers, and use automated API messaging. 

How to Downgrade WhatsApp Business API Number?

The steps to downgrade the WhatsApp Business API number differ from deleting a WhatsApp Business app. To downgrade your WhatsApp Business API number, follow the given steps below:

1. Move to > Facebook Business Manager.
2. Tap Business setting >Select WhatsApp account from the left panel.

3. If you own various WhatsApp Business API accounts, choose the one you want to downgrade.
4. Navigate to Settings & scroll down and tap on WhatsApp Manager.

5. Tap on Account tools > Select Phone numbers.

6. Tap the Trash bucket icon to downgrade your WhatsApp Business API account.

Note: When you delete the phone number, you must submit your Facebook Business account password to confirm the deletion.

Important: The downgrading process for the WhatsApp Business account is now reversible. You may re-create the WhatsApp Business API account using the same contact number. However, you’ll permanently lose your data, including contacts, messages, and saved details in the API account.

Steps to Delete the WhatsApp Business App

Deleting the WhatsApp Business app is an irreversible method that may not be reversed if you do it accidentally. Follow the steps below to delete your WhatsApp account:

1. Open WhatsApp.
2. Click More options > Settings > Account > Delete my account.
3. Submit your contact number in full international format and click DELETE MY ACCOUNT.
4. Choose the reason to delete the account from the dropdown. 
5. Click DELETE MY ACCOUNT.

‍Deleting your account will:

• Delete your account from WhatsApp.
• Erase your message history.
• Delete you from all of your WhatsApp groups.
• Delete your Google Drive backup.

What If You Delete Your Basic WhatsApp Business App Account?

If you accidentally delete your basic WhatsApp business app account, you may not regain access to your account. 

Deactivating your WhatsApp information can take up to 90 days from the start of the deletion process. After 90 days, replicas of your details can also remain in the backup storage WhatsApp uses to recover in a disaster, software bug, or other details loss event. Your details are not available to you via WhatsApp at this time. 

It has no bearing on the data you have about the groups you’ve started or the data other users have about you, such as a copy of the messages you sent them.

WhatsApp can keep specific log data in our databases even after you cancel your account. However, this data will be separated from any personally identifiable information, so it can no longer be connected to your account. WhatsApp does this by routinely erasing specific identifying information from these log data and replacing any occurrences of your account ID with a new one that can never be connected to your account again.

Additionally, WhatsApp might retain your data to handle legal matters, enforce terms, or protect you from damage. Please refer to WhatsApp’s privacy policy for more details. Your details shared with other Meta Companies will also be deleted.

Frequently Asked Questions

Q1. Can we downgrade WhatsApp?

A. If you require a rollback of the WhatsApp application, check the application’s version history. It involves all the versions of files available to download off uptodown for that application.

Q2. How do we delete our WhatsApp Business API number?

A. Tap settings and click WhatsApp Manager. Under WhatsApp Manager, tap phone numbers. Get the phone number that you want to deactivate. Tap the delete button and follow the steps discussed in the blog. 

Q3. What is the WhatsApp Business API number?

A. Using a WhatsApp Business API number, you can boost your business’s conversations around the globe, engage with solutions such as CRM or other solution providers, and use automated API messaging. 

Q4. How do I change my WhatsApp business without losing data?

A. During the WhatsApp Business setup process, you can restore a backup from your regular WhatsApp account. This will move your chat history, involving messages, contacts, and media, to your WhatsApp business account.

Conclusion

It would help if you kept various things in mind before or during using the WhatsApp Business API. You can contact our team when you can link your business number with the API.

When a contact number is registered over the WhatsApp Business API, it may not be used for the basic WhatsApp business app. If one of these applications is downgraded, the number should be unused for 30 days. If the mobile number has not been used for 30 days, deleting the Whatsapp business API number will be easy: tap the ‘trash bin’ icon under the Whatsapp numbers page in the Meta business account. 

This article will help you downgrade your WhatsApp business API number. Before deactivating WhatsApp’s services, check its terms and conditions. Contact us if you have any doubts!