WhatsApp is the most popular instant communication platform in the world. It is used daily by more than two billion people and is the favorite messaging application for Android and iOS. Now, we give an account of the news that comes to the application.
Surely you have seen some form of publication or advertising of WhatsApp itself referring to end-to-end encryption in its messaging application. In fact, both WhatsApp chats and groups are protected by end-to-end encryption. In fact, even local backup copies (backups) of messages are encrypted, but not backups made on the cloud.
WhatsApp prepares privacy booster for cloud backups
This privacy enhancement was previously reported by 4gnews as a great possibility. Now, however, we see the first real signs of its existence in apps for Android and iOS. The feature is available in the respective beta versions.
So if you are beta users, that is, you have joined the test program, you will already find these new menus. It’s a serious security enhancement that was missing, thus filling our cloud (online) backups.
It should also be noted that this information was first advanced by the publication WABetaInfo, a solid source in the study and dissemination of news on this Facebook platform. Meanwhile, by the way, the aforementioned news is being distributed to users of both platforms who have joined the testing program.
Now available in beta version of WhatsApp for Android and iOS
As mentioned in the aforementioned post, there are features in beta that will gradually become available to certain users. This is valid for both the Android application and its iOS equivalent (iPhone).
We will have more options for the message timer (message validity), as well as the arrival of encryption for cloud copies. In any case, these news will also reach the stable and global version of WhatsApp for Android and iOS in the future.
In short, we have new temporary options for disappearing messages – 24 hours, 7 days, 90 days or disabled, as well as the advent of cloud backup encryption.
Finally, we remind you that this distribution is carried out gradually and in phases. On the other hand, we await its arrival in the stable version -for any user- in the course of the next few weeks to both mobile platforms.