Extract from the end to the end (E2EE) On is available on WhatsApp When it comes to privacy and security, the messaging app makes you start well. This means no one else – hackers, law enforcement, or meta staff – can see your chats. Your luggage lives between you and the person or the people you are chatting with.
In the upper part, the app comes with numerous other features to lock your data as much as possible. Take all these precautions in your place, and you can be safe when you talk about keeping your conversation private.
Stop exporting your chats to others
If you want to export your chat, it is easy to present it in a simple text file.
- On the Android, tap the three dots (the top right) in the chat, then More> Export Chat.
- On the iPhone, tap the header in the upper part of the chat, then Export Chat.
The problem is that whatever you are chatting with can export this chat somewhere else, as you can. If you want your contacts Were not By exporting your joint conversation, you can disable each of the iT in the chat. (In this feature is Only introduced just introducedSo you won’t be able to see it yet.)
- Tap the top header and go to the chat information page.
- Select Advanced Chat Privacy To turn on the block.
Lock and hide specific chats
If someone else should access your phone, many WhatsApp safety protection can be eliminated, which is why the chat lock feature can be useful. This specific conversation you select in their own folder, which can only be accessed by an additional password or biometric verification method.
Lock chats above all your other messages in the main chat list, and these chats will require an unlock method (such as fee ID, for example) for your phone.
- Tap the header in the upper part of the conversation.
- Select Chat lock (Android) or Chat (iOS)
Place the WhatsApp behind the biometric lock
In addition to keeping individual chats behind an extra layer of security, you can also do for the WhatsApp overall. If someone should enter your phone somehow, they will not be able to go to anything inside the WhatsApp without a face or fingerprint scan.
Suppose your Android or iOS phone has already set biometric security for the lock screen, you can apply the same to the WhatsApp.
- On the Android, from the main chat list, tap on the three dots (top right), then Settings> Privacy> App Lock.
- on iOS, go on Settings Tab, then select Privacy> App Lock.
You can also determine how much WhatsApp is waiting before asking for biometric verification.
Make sure the backups are fully encrypted
Your WhatsApp chats are completely encrypted, but your chat backup is not – anyway, not as default. Although it is very difficult to hack in these backups, it is even more difficult if they are secret. Activating this means that you will need an encryption key or password that the WhatsApp provides you with a gRE to restore backups.
- Move toward app settings (then three dots Settings On Chat Tab in Android, Settings tab on iOS)
- Choose Chats> Chat backup. From here you can manage to take back your conversation in your Google Account or iCloud, and enable encryption through Backup from the end to the end Option
Turn on the verification of two elements
It is a great idea to activate the two -factor verification (2FA) on whatever account is offered in each account, which is most of them these days. This means that whenever you log into an app on a new device, an additional code is needed. This code is usually provided by an authentic app, but through the WhatsApp, it is a six -digit pin that you have set yourself.
- Open the WhatsApp Settings On your phone,
- on Android, head toward the head Chat Tab, tap the three dots (the top right), and pick Settings.
- on iOS, go on Settings Tab, then tap Account> two steps verification To configure the feature.
You have the option to insert the email address that you can use to reset the pin if you ever forget it – otherwise the WhatsApp forces you to wait seven days before making a new pin.
Enable Missing messages
You can activate the missing messages and make sure that your chats are wiped out over time – so even if anyone else accesses your phone, he will not see what you are chatting about, because the conversation will end.
To do this in any conversation:
- Tap the top header bar, then select Missing messages.
- Message timer’s choice of your choice, which all the participants of the chat have seen the message, starts 24 hoursFor, for, for,. 7 daysOr 90 days.
- You can also set up a default message timer for all the new chats you started.
