WhatsApp recommends activating two specific options in the settings. Among other things, this closes a security gap through which your chats could be read.
WhatsApp chats are end-to-end encrypted, but this does not apply to your cloud backups by default. (Source: netzwelt)
On its Twitter account, WhatsApp not only announces new features, but also promotes lesser-known ones. Messenger currently advises you to activate encryption for cloud backups of your chats.
What’s it all about? Well, WhatsApp chats are encrypted on the messenger’s servers, but the backup in the iCloud or on Google Drive does not have such encryption ex works, so that hackers could theoretically get to your chats.
WhatsApp already closed this potential vulnerability in autumn 2021. Apparently, the feature is still largely unknown, which is why the Messenger is now once again stirring the advertising drum. In a tutorial, we’ll tell you how to activate encryption for WhatsApp backups in the cloud and what you need to bear in mind.
WhatsApp recommends self-deleting messages
The encryption of the cloud backups is not the only optional feature that WhatsApp advises you to activate. Messenger also recommends turning on the “self-deleting messages” function. With this, the messages in the selected chat are automatically deleted after a predetermined time.
You can also activate the feature directly for all chats that you start in Messenger using the “Default message duration” option.
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You can find out which other WhatsApp settings you should definitely change in the linked article. You should also check whether you use one of these 13 cell phones. Because then you sometimes have to be active in order to be able to continue using WhatsApp.
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