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Keep your WhatsApp conversations private by locking them behind Face ID or Touch ID authentication. You probably already use Face ID or Touch ID to lock your iPhone. However, Apple's biometric verification isn't just for unlocking your iPhone or authorizing Apple Pay payments. Did you know you can also use it to lock WhatsApp? Using Face ID or Touch ID to lock WhatsApp is an easy way to improve the privacy of all your chats. You can even use Face ID or Touch ID to hide notification previews on the Lock Screen. How to Lock the WhatsApp App With Face ID or Touch ID WhatsApp lets you lock the app using Face ID or Touch ID. You can use this feature to protect your private WhatsApp chats from prying eyes. Here's how to enable Face ID or Touch ID authorization for accessing WhatsApp: Open the Settings app on your iPhone. Tap Face ID & Passcode (or Touch ID & Passcode) and enter your passcode. Tap Other Apps and ensure the toggle for WhatsApp is enabled. Launch WhatsApp and tap Settings in the bottom-right corner. Select Privacy and navigate to Screen Lock. Turn on the toggle for Require Face ID (or

The update has started rolling out globally and should be available to everyone in the coming weeks. May 05, 2023 / 05:25 PM IST (Image: Meta/WhatsApp) WhatsApp is introducing more options for polls and expanding on sharing with captions.In polls, users can now create "Single-Vote Polls", which allows participants to vote only once. To enable this, turn off "allow multiple answers" when creating a new poll.Also Read | Teen arrested for duping people through fake WhatsApp accountsIt's now possible to search for existing polls directly in chat by filtering the messages for polls, just like you would do for images, videos or links. To do this, press search on the chat screen and select polls.The creators of the poll will now be updated when people vote. They will also be shown the number of people that voted.Also Read | WhatsApp now lets you access the same account on up to four phonesYou can now edit captions for forwarded images or videos by choosing to keep or delete them. Alternatively, you can completely rewrite them. These also work for forwarded documents. Invite your friends and family to sign up for MC Tech 3, our daily newsletter that breaks down the biggest tech and

NEW DELHI: A 15-year-old boy was apprehended from Uttar Pradesh’s Mathura for allegedly creating fake WhatsApp accounts of people and demanding money from their kin on the pretext of hospital emergencies, police said on Thursday. According to police, a man filed a complaint last year on April 22, saying his WhatsApp account was hacked and someone was demanding money from his relatives and friends by using his identity and photos. The teenager told the complainant’s relatives that he was in an urgent need of money for hospital admission and would return it in two days. One of his relatives transferred Rs 80,000 to the teenager, a senior police officer said. During investigation, police conducted a raid in Mathura and apprehended the juvenile on Wednesday. Two mobile phones allegedly used in the crime were recovered from him, he said. The officer disclosed that the accused gathered information from randomly picked public profiles on social media platforms. After that, he would create a fake WhatsApp account using the person’s photograph sourced from his social media account, police said. The juvenile would then contact the close relatives of victim and demanded money citing some emergency in a hospital, they said. They said they

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emailsSign up to our free breaking news emailsWhatsApp is rolling out a new update that fixes two of the most irritating things about the app.The update brings a host of changes to polls, including finally letting people vote only once, rather than choosing multiple answers. As well as that, users will now be able to search for polls within chats and stay updated on poll results with notifications.Another change finally allows images to be forwarded with captions. WhatsApp has long allowed people to add captions to images to add context or extra information about a picture – but those captions inexplicably dropped off the images when they were shared, potentially causing confusion.Now users will have the option to keep the caption, delete it, or write an entirely new one when they forward on an image. Users can also add a new caption if it didn’t have one already.The new tools fix two of the major irritations when using WhatsApp, tweaking long-standing but inexplicably limited features within the app. They are part of a range of recent small improvements that have been added to

WhatsApp has granted permission to its users to sign in to their accounts from a secondary phone. The situation is similar to using the same account on a PC or tablet. This latest feature of Whatsapp will be coming all over the globe over the coming weeks. For a long, the users of WhatsApp have been requesting the company to invent the ability to utilize the same account from multiple devices. While it has been possible to make use of the popular messaging app, Whatsapp through a Web browser or apps for PC. This feature is one of the most primary features which is able to link multiple smartphones.With the help of this feature, users will now have the ability to seamlessly continue message threads and access all their photos and other media from multiple devices without compromising the security or privacy of data.It has been announced that up to four additional smartphones can be linked to the user’s WhatsApp account at the same time, and only the primary phone can be used to authorize other devices. The process is similar to the authorizing WhatsApp Web by the help of which users will have to scan a QR code. The

By Ankita Garg: WhatsApp has introduced a new feature that will make it easier for you to transfer chats to a new phone. WaBetaInfo has spotted a new way for transferring messages which lets you restore chats to a new iPhone without using a cloud backup option. A similar feature is already available for Android beta testers. Here are the details.According to the screenshots provided by the source, people will find a new “Transfer Chats to iPhone” option in the app's Settings section > Chats. Here, one will see the ability to transfer chat history to a new iPhone without relying on a iCloud backup. For this, one will just be required to download WhatsApp on their new phone, register with the same phone number, and use the old device to scan the QR code shown on the new phone to transfer their chat history, as per the report.This feature could be very useful for those who run out of cloud storage space pretty fast. For your reference, Apple provides only 5GB of cloud storage space to its users with iCloud. Comparatively, Google gives at least 15GB of free space, which is divided across Google services. Now, one won't be

It’s voting time – here’s how to set up a poll in WhatsApp It’s polling time… (Picture: Getty/iStockphoto)In case you hadn’t spotted, earlier this year WhatsApp released a poll function – and given there are one or two polls going on around the country this week (local elections FYI), it seems a good time for a refresher on how to use them. Luckily, they’re very simple.  1. Open the conversation with the person or group you want to send the poll too. 2. Click on the plus sign or paperclip icon depending on whether you’re on iOS or Android, and select ‘Poll’. 3. Enter your question, followed by up to 12 multiple choice answers – and be sure to toggle off ‘allow multiple answers’ if you want firm feedback. You can also click and drag answers to change the order. 5. When you’re happy with the poll, simply hit send. How polls look to the sender and recipient (Picture: WhatsApp) The votes are coming in… (Picture: WhatsApp)6. Voting is easy, simply click on your preferred answer – and unlike the election, you can change your mind afterwards and pick another option.  7. To remove your vote entirely, click on your

The representational image showing WhatsApp logo on a smart phone. — AFP/File The instant messaging app WhatsApp keeps bringing new updates and features to make the user experience better and smoother. According to WaBetaInfo, WhatsApp has once again brought a new feature for the Windows native app that would allow users to play voice messages outside of chats. The new feature — called play messages outside of chats — is being through the official beta channel on the search Microsoft Store. It is available to some beta testers but will be accessible to more users in the coming days. Through this update, users will still be able to listen to any voice message even if they open a different chat. — WaBetaInfo This feature is very important as users will be able to perform multiple operations simultaneously while listening to a voice message. This would also save them time if a voice note is very long and users would continue to send messages within different conversations. "Although this feature appeared in the beta version for the first time, we do not exclude that the release may be wider and that it may have also reached some users on the stable version of the application," said WaBetaInfo.

SynopsisThe platform disclosed it complied with all three orders received from the newly-constituted Grievance Appellate Committee, between March 1-31, 2023. It, however, did not give further details on this.Gadgets NowMeta-owned WhatsApp banned over 4.7 million accounts in March, higher than the number of accounts it barred in the preceding month, and it received and complied with three orders from the Grievance Appellate Committee during March. WhatsApp banned over 4.5 million accounts in February, 2.9 million accounts in January, 3.6 million accounts in December and 3.7 million accounts in November. The platform disclosed it complied with all three orders received from the newly-constituted Grievance Appellate Committee, between March 1-31, 2023. It, however, did not give further details on this. The monthly user-safety report contains details of the user complaints received and the corresponding action taken by WhatsApp, as well as WhatsApp's own preventive actions to combat abuse on the platform. "As captured in the latest Monthly Report, WhatsApp banned over 4.7 million accounts in the month of March," according to a WhatsApp spokesperson. An Indian account is identified via a +91 phone number. "Between March 1, 2023 and March 31, 2023, 4,715,906 WhatsApp accounts were banned. 1,659,385 of these accounts were

Unsubscribe to continueThis is a subscriber only feature Subscribe Now to get daily updates on WhatsAppMost WhatsApp users find it complex to transfer their data from their old phone to a new device since it involves backing up chat data to a Google DriveBS Web Team New Delhi WhatsApp2 min read Last Updated : May 01 2023 | 4:56 PM ISTListen to This ArticleYour browser does not support the audio element. With its user-friendly features and fresh updates, the Meta-owned instant messaging application, WhatsApp is everyone's favourite. To ensure that customers have an unparalleled experience, WhatsApp releases important updates on a regular basis. Just as with any other task, WhatsApp has ensured that transferring one's crucial data from your old device to the one is seamless and hassle-free. However, most users find it complex to transfer their user data from their old phone to a new device since it involves backing up chat data to a Google Drive. However, WhatsApp's latest update may change that. To store their data and transfer it when changing their device, WhatsApp users have been dependent on Google's storage facilitated by Google Drive. This makes WhatsApp completely dependent on Google Drive for data transfer. So