Contact erasure now covers linked hosted-chat data
Released: September 22, 2026
Contact deletion Fixed
Section titled “Contact deletion ”DELETE /v1/{phone_number_id}/contacts/{id} now applies the same permanent
erasure boundary to any linked hosted-chat identity. In addition to the existing
WhatsApp contact, conversation, and message cascade, Kirimdev removes linked
Kichat display-name and phone snapshots, customer sessions, messages, and media
records. Private media bytes are placed in a durable deletion queue before the
database references disappear.
The response shape and endpoint parameters are unchanged. Disconnecting a WhatsApp number is still non-destructive and does not erase hosted-chat history; only an explicit permanent contact deletion performs this erasure.