You can now deliver one-time passcodes over WhatsApp, alongside SMS and email. WhatsApp OTPs are sent from the shared **Bird Authifly** sender — the same "Authifly" brand you already see on our shared email sender — using the built-in authentication template, so there's no template or sender setup required. Support for your own dedicated senders is following shortly.

## What's new

- **Enable WhatsApp per country** from the Verify → Countries settings in the dashboard.
- **Automatic failover:** if the primary channel can't deliver, Verify falls back through your configured channels before giving up.
- **API & SDK:** `whatsapp` is now a valid value for a verification's `channel`, and country routes accept a `whatsapp` key in their per-channel settings. This is additive — no breaking change.

## Default routing change

Existing phone verifications now default to **SMS → WhatsApp → email**: SMS stays primary, with WhatsApp as an automatic fallback before email. Countries you've already customized are left untouched.