Account registration is a paramount task to gain access to the possibilities of any Internet service. In the material proposed below, the issue of creating an account in Viber is considered one of the most popular messaging systems through the global network.
In fact, the process of registering a new member of the service is simplified as much as possible by the creators of Weber. In independence, on which device, the user plans to use the messenger, everything that will be required of it in order to become a participant in the information exchange system is a working mobile phone number and several taps on the smartphone screen or clicks in the Viber application window for a computer.
Registration options in Vaiber
Concrete actions involving as a result of their implementation, creating a Viber account and an activation of the client application, as well as the procedure for their implementation are practically identical in mobile operating systems and are somewhat different for the handicraft version of the messenger.
Option 1: Android
Viber for Android is characterized by the most numerous audience among the options for the Messenger client applications for various platforms. Before starting registration in the service, the user will need to set the program to its device. To do this, we follow the recommendations from the material on the link below, and then we proceed to the execution of the instruction as a result of its execution by the user receives access to all functions of the information for the information sharing service.
Read more: Installing Viber on Android-Smartphone
- The first screen in the phone, which appears before the user's gaze after installing and running the Weber for Android is "Welcome". You will get acquainted with the "Conditions and Politicians of Viber", tapping on the relevant link, and then return to the welcome screen and click "continue."
- On the next screen, you need to choose the country and enter the phone number that will be used as the identifier of the Vaiber service in the future. As for the country, it is not necessary to choose a place of direct stay, but the state in which the telecom operator is registered and provides its services.
IMPORTANT: SIM card with a number used to register in the messenger, it must necessarily be installed in the device on which the Wyber client is installed and running and running, but the mobile identifier must be operational, accessible, and is in the included phone!
After selecting the country and enter the phone number, making sure that the information provided is correct, click "Continue", and then confirm the "Yes" button.
- We are waiting for an SMS arrival containing the authorization code, and make the resulting combination of 6 digits to the corresponding field. After entering the last digit of the code, automatically check the correctness of the entered data and, with a positive result of verification, the Viber account will be activated.
If the SMS with activation code does not come more than three minutes, and there is confidence that the service of short messages functions in the phone normally (i.e., other sms arrive and sent without problems), we try to get a combination again - click "send again" and We are waiting a few minutes. In the absence of a result, we perform the following item in this Instruction.
- Additionally. If it is impossible to receive a code to activate Vaiber via SMS, it can be found out by requesting a phone call that will implement a specialized robot that functions within the service framework. Click "Request a call" on the "Account Activation" screen. Next, we are convinced of the correctness of the provided phone number, we choose the language on which the secret combination will be announced by the robot. In the absence of confidence that the data obtained can be remembered, prepare paper and handle to record information. Press the "Get Code" button.
If at this stage it turned out that the error leading to the impossibility of obtaining the activation code, it lies in the wrong entered user phone number, taping "This Is Not My Number", close Viber and repeat the registration procedure first!
Within a few minutes, the incoming call will go to the specified number. We raise the tube and remember / write a dictated combination of numbers, after which we enter the received information in the field to make the activation code.
- This is considered to be registered in the Viber service. You can move to account personalization and the use of all functions of the messenger!
Option 2: iOS
If you plan to use the iOS version of Viber, the registration of the account in the messenger is carried out in the same way as in the android client. The difference is only in the design of the application interface, but the differences are practically invisible. Before proceeding to the execution of the following instructions, install Vaiber in the iPhone and launch the messenger.
Read more: Methods for installing the Viber messenger on the iPhone
- On the Welcome screen Viber tapai "Continue".
When requests for messenger access to different iOS components ("Contacts", "Microphone", "Camera") provide an application with this feature by clicking "Allow", otherwise you can encounter some restriction of the functionality with further use of Weber.
- The next screen provides the ability to choose a country where the communication operator is registered and enter the phone number that will serve as an identifier in the Viber service. Indicate information, check their correctness and click "Continue" and then "Yes" in the request window.
- We expect to receive an SMS message with the activation code and enter the combination of numbers on the virtual keyboard.
If the SIM card with a number specified in step 2 above in the instructions is set to the iPhone from which registration is made, you do not need to enter anything, Viber will automatically receive the necessary information, will verify and activate!
In a situation where activation using code from SMS is impossible, that is, the message does not come for a long (more than 3 minutes) of time, taping "Request a call", check the correctness of the entered phone number and click "Get Code".
Next, we expect an incoming call, answer it, listen and remember the combination of numbers dictated by the robot. Then we enter the activation code received from the voice message to the corresponding field.
- After executing the previous item (input of the latest digit code or automatic check) Create an account in the Wiber service is completed. You can personalize the account by adding the photo and pointing the system visible to other participants, and then move to the use of all functions of the popular messenger!
Option 3: Windows
It should be noted, registration of a new account in the messenger using Viber for the PC is not possible, only the activation of the already existing account on the desktop for sharing with a smartphone or tablet is available. This situation occurs due to the non-autonomy of the Windows version of the client application. In essence, the variety of messenger for a computer is just a "mirror" of the mobile version and cannot function separately from the latter.
More information about installing Viber's client in Windows, including in the lack of mobile device running Android or iOS, can be obtained by moving to the material on the link below.
Read more: How to install Viber on a computer or laptop
In general, to register Weber for Windows and binding an application to the account, we establish an application, following the recommendations from the above-described above and perform the following steps.
- We launch the program and confirm the presence of an installed messenger on a mobile device by pressing "Yes."
- We specify the country where the Viber's telephone number is registered, and make it in the appropriate field, and then click "Continue".
- Scan the QR code displayed in the window that opens using Android-smartphone or iPhone.
To gain access to the scanner on a mobile device, you need to make the messenger to be launched and open on the latter.
- After scanning the QR code, there is almost instant verification and a window appears with the audit of the inscription: "Ready!".
Indeed, everything is ready to use the capabilities of the PC messenger, click the "Open Viber" button!
As you can see, when registering a new user, as a member of the Viber service, there should be no special difficulties. The procedure is almost fully automated and all that is required from the user is a working phone number and a few minutes of time.