KakaoTalk QR codes

What their code contains

A KakaoTalk QR code holds a link that only KakaoTalk can turn into a person, for example qr.kakao.com/talk/ followed by a code. It doesn’t hold their name. So it gives met.cards a link only: a link that opens them in KakaoTalk.

Ask them to show it

On an iPhone or an Android phone:

1. Open KakaoTalk and go to the Friends tab.
2. Tap the add friend icon, then QR code, and show their own code.

Apps move these screens between versions. If the steps don’t match their app, look for a QR code icon on their profile or in their settings. Scan it from Capture in QR mode.

Last checked: not yet on a phone. These steps follow the app’s own help and may differ in their version.

What met.cards saves

met.cards shows KakaoTalk contact and explains: “KakaoTalk keeps the contact inside its own app, so we can’t read the name or number from this code. We’ll save a link that opens them in KakaoTalk.” Then choose:

• Type their name, to save the link with a name you type.
• Photograph their screen, to read the name from their phone. Ask them to open their KakaoTalk profile first, so their name is on the screen. met.cards reads the photo the way it reads a paper card, and keeps the KakaoTalk link.

Either way, the person’s page shows KakaoTalk under Profiles, with Open in KakaoTalk. An info icon next to it says “Contact code: opens in KakaoTalk, the name was added by you.”

Name and photo

KakaoTalk keeps the contact inside its own app, so met.cards can’t fill in the name or photo, and no setting changes that.

Troubleshooting

• The link doesn’t open. A KakaoTalk link opens only on a phone with KakaoTalk installed.
• Nothing happens. Ask them to turn their screen brightness up, and tilt your phone so their screen doesn’t reflect the lights. Or take a photo of the code and pick it with the gallery button in QR mode.
• You already have them. A KakaoTalk code hides who it is, so met.cards can’t match it on its own. After you select Type their name and start typing, it suggests people you already have whose name matches what you typed, under Already in your connections? Select Add to on the right person, for example Add to Olena Koval, to add the KakaoTalk link to them. See When you already have them.