ChatGPT
Phone verification is no longer required for new OpenAI account creation or ChatGPT usage.
API
Phone verification is now mandated on platform.openai.com for generating your initial API key, though not for any subsequent API key generation after that.
Our default drop-down is set to the United States which looks like this:
Then if you select one of the countries in our list above which include the WhatsApp alternative phone verification option - using India as an example - you'll see this UI:
Then to get your code sent to WhatsApp you can select "YES" and that option appears:
