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 provide more targeted advertisements on its platform, WhatsApp will remain ‘ad-free’. It is certain that you will see suggestions and advertisements to make friends on Facebook based on WhatsApp data. If you are not sure about this new policy of WhatsApp and want to prevent 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 accept WhatsApp’s updated terms of service
You will get notification of new terms of service on WhatsApp. As soon as you open the app, a page will open in which the new terms of service will be mentioned. You will be asked to agree to these Terms of Service. If you’re at this screen, follow these instructions

1. tap 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 prevent the 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 in the top right corner.
2. Tap Settings, then Account.
3. After this uncheck Share my account information.

In this way you will be able to prevent 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 yet been rolled out to your device. Keep in mind that these will be rolled out for your handset soon too, so follow the instructions above.