How to know my Safaricom mobile number

How to know my Safaricom mobile number. the fastest way to do it is by using the *100# Safaricom USSD short code.

Here is how to use it to check your Safaricom number:

• Dial *100# on your phone, smartphone, tablet, laptop or desktop computer (if using your SIM in a modem or router)
• Select option 2: My Account
• Select option 3: My Number
• Press Send
• You’ll then see something like this: ‘Your number is 704123456.’

Check Safaricom phone number via Safaricom SIM toolkit menu

• Go to your device’s main menu and select the Safaricom toolkit option
• Select Safaricom+
• Select My Account
• Scroll down and select the My Number option
• Select Prepay or Postpay
• You’ll be taken to a menu similar to the one in the section above. Reply with 5 to get your number
  Your number will be displayed in the following format: ‘Your number is 704123456.’

Call another number, end the call and copy your Safaricom number

How do you use this method to get your number?

• Buy airtime – I show you how here.
• Load the airtime on your line
• Call another phone number – maybe a friend’s or a family member or a line in your second phone
• Once the call goes through, end it
• Then just copy your number from the other phone
• Write it on a piece of paper or in a notebook / diary. You can even save it in your phonebook.

Send a text message from your Safaricom line to another number

• Go to your device’s main menu
• Go to Messages
• Compose a new message – it doesn’t need to have anything written in it
• Send the message to your other number – or a friend’s number
• Check the other phone’s Inbox
• Check the sender’s number in the most recent (blank) text
• Copy the sender’s number – your phone number.
• Add the number to your contacts list. Or in a book.
• Memorize it.