New Delhi, July 3 -- Zoho's instant messaging app Arattai will no longer have the username-based account feature, said Sridhar Vembu.

Taking to his official X account, the Zoho co-founder and chief scientist shared that the recent change has been made to comply with the regulatory change.

"We will be disabling the user name based account feature in Arattai, to comply with the regulatory change," he said.

This comes after the Indian government issued a notice to Meta regarding the roll-out of the feature on WhatsApp, the Ministry of Electronics and IT (MeitY), as it is increasing scrutiny over the 'username' feature.

On Wednesday, the Centre issued a notice to Meta over WhatsApp's planned "usernames" feature in India, warning that it c...