WhatsApp is launching a brand new “Superior Chat Privateness” function that goals to forestall individuals from taking conversations exterior the app. When the setting is turned on, you’ll be able to block others from exporting your chat historical past and mechanically downloading photographs and movies despatched within the app.
The function will stop individuals from utilizing messages for Meta AI as effectively, which you’ll presently use to ask questions inside a chat and generate pictures.
By default, WhatsApp saves photographs and movies in a chat to your cellphone’s native storage. It additionally enables you to and your recipients export chats (with or with out media) to your messages, electronic mail, or notes app. The Superior Chat Privateness setting will stop this in group and particular person chats.
This function nonetheless doesn’t cease individuals from taking screenshots of your messages or manually downloading media from chats, WhatsApp spokesperson Zade Alsawah confirmed to The Verge. Nevertheless, WhatsApp says that is its “first model” of the function, and that it plans so as to add extra protections down the road.
“We predict this function is greatest used when speaking with teams the place you might not know everybody carefully however are however delicate in nature,” WhatsApp says in its announcement. WABetaInfo first noticed this function earlier this month, and now it’s rolling out to the most recent model of the app. You possibly can activate the setting by tapping the title of your chat and choosing Superior Chat Privateness.
Replace, April twenty third: Added info from WhatsApp.
