WhatsApp Continues to Tighten Security: Chat Backups Get More Protection

The team of the popular messenger WhatsApp continues to work to improve the security of user data. Cloud backups of chats and media content will receive additional protection.

WhatsApp Continues to Tighten Security: Chat Backups Get More Protection

Users will be able to configure password access and encryption to the cloud copy of data so that outsiders cannot reach them. According to the thematic resource WABetaInfo, in the near future the function may appear in stable versions of applications for Android and iOS and is already available in beta versions.

WhatsApp Continues to Tighten Security: Chat Backups Get More Protection

The screenshots provided by WABetaInfo explain:

To prevent unauthorized access to your iCloud Drive backup, you can set a password that will be used to encrypt future backups. “

This password will later be required in order to restore the data from the backup. There is also a warning that WhatsApp will not be able to help recover the password if the user forgets it.

WhatsApp Continues to Tighten Security: Chat Backups Get More Protection
WhatsApp Continues to Tighten Security: Chat Backups Get More Protection
WhatsApp Continues to Tighten Security: Chat Backups Get More Protection

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