WhatsApp is launching a new “Superior Chat Privateness” characteristic that goals to forestall individuals from taking conversations exterior the app. When the setting is turned on, you possibly can block others from exporting your chat historical past and robotically downloading images and movies despatched within the app.
The characteristic will stop individuals from utilizing messages for Meta AI as effectively, which you’ll be able to presently use to ask questions inside a chat and generate images.
By default, WhatsApp saves photos and movies in a chat to your telephone’s native storage. It additionally permits you to and your recipients export chats (with or with out media) to your messages, e mail, or notes app. The Superior Chat Privateness setting will stop this in group and particular person chats.
This characteristic 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 characteristic, and that it plans so as to add extra protections down the road.
“We expect this characteristic is finest used when speaking with teams the place you could not know everybody carefully however are nonetheless delicate in nature,” WhatsApp says in its announcement. WABetaInfo first spotted this characteristic earlier this month, and now it’s rolling out to the newest model of the app. You possibly can activate the setting by tapping the identify of your chat and deciding on Superior Chat Privateness.
Replace, April twenty third: Added info from WhatsApp.