How to stop WhatsApp from sharing your data with Facebook

WhatsApp will soon start sharing your phone number with Facebook. While this move will help Facebook to offer more targeted advertising on its platform, WhatsApp will remain ‘ad-free’. It is certain that you will see friend suggestions and ads on Facebook based on WhatsApp data. If you are not convinced about this new policy of WhatsApp and want to stop your data from being shared with Facebook, then you will have to manually disable it by going to the settings of the messaging app. This is how you can stop WhatsApp from sharing data with Facebook…
Do not approve WhatsApp’s updated Terms of Service
You will receive a notification of the new Terms of Service on WhatsApp. As soon as you open the app, a page will open mentioning the new Terms of Service. You will be asked to agree to these Terms of Service. If you are on this screen, follow these instructions

1. Tap on Read
2. After this, uncheck ‘Share my WhatsApp account information with Facebook’.

Another way to stop WhatsApp from sharing data with Facebook
Even if you have already agreed to WhatsApp’s new Terms of Service, you can still stop this messaging app from sharing data with Facebook. For this, you have to do this.

If you have an iPhone:
1. Tap Settings, then Account.
2. Uncheck Share my account info.

For Android:
1. Tap the three-dot icon at the top right.
2. Tap Settings, then Account.
3. After this uncheck Share My Account Info.

This way you will be able to stop WhatsApp from sharing your data with Facebook. If you have not been updated with the new Terms of Service by WhatsApp, it means that these changes have not been rolled out for your device yet. Keep in mind that these will be rolled out for your handset soon, so follow the instructions given above.