Hike Messenger launches Hike ID

Hike Messenger has announced the launch of Hike ID, a unique identity that removes the need for sharing your phone number so your privacy is guarded.

It’s also easy to search for someone with simply their Hike ID, so one no longer needs to go through the process of saving a friend’s number before being able to send him/her a message.

Hike ID was a direct response to feedback from Hike users. In a survey of over 1 million Hike users, two results stood out – 69 per cent of the respondents said that they’d like to talk to people without sharing their phone numbers first and over 72 per cent said that they want to skip the hassle of saving someone’s number before talking to them.

Hike ID aims to solve these two problems - making user’s phone number private along with adding a layer of convenience for messaging and calling.