WhatsApp says it’s meant to give people “greater confidence” when chatting, especially in sensitive situations. Of course, someone could still take a screenshot, but this feature is designed ...

With this feature, users can block chat exports, stop media from being saved automatically, and prevent their messages from being used by AI-based tools outside WhatsApp.

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In recent years, WhatsApp has increased its focus on user and chat privacy. It has regularly introduced features like end-to-end encryption, disappearing messages and chat locks.

Other privacy features that WhatsApp has released include disappearing messages and chat lock. Earlier this month, WhatsApp has unveiled a series of updates aimed at enhancing the way businesses ...

With privacy concerns growing in large and loosely-knit group chats, WhatsApp’s new feature aims to keep conversations exactly where they belong, inside the app.

Earlier this month, WhatsApp rolled out a plethora of new features for its app, such as an online indicator for groups, ability to RSVP for an event as ‘maybe,’ invite a plus one, add end date ...

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WhatsApp has slowly added better protection against third-party access over the years. In 2021, for example, the option was added to transfer WhatsApp's automatic chat backups with end-to-end ...

Meta's messaging platform WhatsApp is working on an advanced chat privacy feature to limit message sharing, which will be available in a future update. This new feature is designed to give users ...

According to WhatsApp, this feature is particularly valuable for group chats where participants may not know each other personally, such as health support groups or community organisation chats.

With privacy concerns growing in large and loosely-knit group chats, WhatsApp’s new feature aims to keep conversations exactly where they belong,inside the app.