Security and privacy are important in every communication, and WhatsApp focuses on securing all the messages of its users. All the messages are end-to-end encrypted, which is the foundation of security, so WhatsApp announces new security features that provide additional security features for its users. These features include account protection, device verification, and automatic security code, which help users prevent WhatsApp devices from malware.
WhatsApp announces in its latest blog post that it provides extra security features for all its uses. In this article, you highlight important features available on Android and IOS in the upcoming month.
Account Protect: Onwards, when you switch your WhatsApp account from one device to another, WhatsApp will check it and ask you to verify your old device, and this step is an extra Security Check. This feature will give you an alert when an unauthorized attempt to move the account to another device.
Device Verification: Device verification is an important part of privacy and security because when you do not verify your device, the unauthorized access your account and sends unwanted messages to your contacts. To solve this problem, WhatsApp added an option to help them check the account’s authenticity. Once your device is compromised, you don’t need anything else. WhatsApp will instruct you to verify your device to protect your account.
Automatic Security Codes: The Other security feature added by WhatsApp help to take advantage of your security code through the verification feature. WhatsApp will roll out a new security feature based on the “Key Transparency” process, which helps users automatically verify their account when they click on the encryption. After that the account verification, all personal conversations are secured.
These security and privacy features are not only for Android; the developer plans to release WhatsApp for iOS. The update will be rolling out on both platforms in the upcoming month and may be available for beta testers soon.