WhatsApp update will make it easier to ‘secure your chats’ – GB News

If you want to keep your WhatsApp messages safe, the next update to this popular chat app could be critical. Parent company Meta, which also owns Facebook and Instagram, has announced plans to roll out a new passkey-encrypted backup system that lets you protect your complete chat history with a fingerprint, facial scan, or the passcode used to unlock your iPhone or Android device. WhatsApp was the first messaging service to introduce end-to-end encryption for its backups. End-to-end encryption has been used to scramble and secure text messages, voice memos, documents, and videos sent within WhatsApp since mid-2016, but the same safeguards weren’t afforded to backups until October 2021. Upcoming WhatsApp feature could save you money, and will definitely free up your storage It ensures that you are the only one able to unscramble the contents of your backup. To do that, it ensures files stored in iCloud or Google Drive, the cloud storage solutions for iPhone and Android handsets, respectively, are unreadable without access to a password or 64-digit encryption key. With passkey support, you’ll be able to unscramble backups of your WhatsApp data using the same methods on your iPhone or Android device as authenticating a contactless payment
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