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Appreciate it. It's not the end of the world as she wasn't using it for anything critical; she could get a new phone number, but not sure it's worth the hassle of juggling two numbers or devices just for whatsapp, nor is it worth changing her phone number for everything else. So if it's not reversed she'll probably just live with missing out on those chats.

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Or maybe she can get a new number just for registering on whatsapp and keep the sim around if she needs to re-register. I don't belive I have ever had to re-register unless I changed devices. Although, I think that might be circumventing the ban and should be pretty trivial to detect and might get banned again.

If you get a phone with 2 sim cards you can use one only for WhatsApp and the other for everything else.

I was even able to use WhatsApp while abroad and my sim card not working for a month, it might be only needed for setting up WhatsApp once at the start and then swap the card.

You only need to be able to receive an SMS for setup - I ported my cell number to twilio long ago for spam prevention purposes, but can still use whatsapp / signal.

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