Content by Rhea Velgos in June, 2026

Search Engine Round Table posted this last week https://www.seroundtable.com/google-business-profile-invites-broken-41504.html Does anybody know if there is an update on when this will be fixed? Thank you, Rhea

Thank you @rustybrick, I can confirm too that we can remove the WhatsApp number.

The numbers seem to be correct, but as I mentioned in my initial outreach, the numbers don't have texting functionality. They are landlines.

Claudia Tomina confirmed this is a bug and Google is actively working on fixing it. Even if you can register a landline to WhatsApp, not every practice/company is equipped for answering texts. Google unilaterally added this to a few profiles, so I'm glad it's getting addressed. Thank you.

Good morning, Over the weekend, we received emails from Google regarding three profiles that were updated with a WhatsApp chat link in the Chat field. The WhatsApp phone number shown on each profile matches the practice's main phone number. However, these are landline numbers and do not...