WhatsApp is developing a sophisticated chat privacy feature to restrict message sharing and provide user chats an additional degree of privacy.
According to WABetaInfo, which cited the most recent WhatsApp beta for Android 2.25.10.14 version that is accessible on the Google Play Store, this new functionality will be included in a future update.
Users will be able to prevent media from being automatically stored to the device gallery with the new advanced chat privacy feature of the well-known instant messaging service owned by Meta.
Notably, WhatsApp now seems to be expanding this restriction to users who will select the optional advanced conversation privacy feature in the future. It was previously only applicable to chats containing disappearing messages.
A number of privacy safeguards will be provided by this functionality, such as limitations on exporting complete conversation histories. In order to protect private conversations and stop unauthorized data transfers, WhatsApp will also be able to prohibit the export of chat history that contain messages from users who have enabled this feature.
To preserve usability, this feature won’t stop messages from being forwarded. Furthermore, participants in the same conversation will not be able to communicate with Meta AI in any way if advanced chat privacy is enabled.
These are the only features that now make up the advanced chat privacy functionality. Nevertheless, given that it is still in its early stages of development, WhatsApp may eventually add more functionality in response to user input and additional testing.
Additionally, there is no sign that WhatsApp is implementing a feature to recognize screenshots in order to stop chat screenshots.
Because users might still get around snapshot detection by capturing their screens with WhatsApp Web or other external tools, it was probably decided not to integrate it.
Since web clients don’t have built-in safeguards against screenshots like mobile apps do, it might be challenging to impose a useful restriction without users discovering other ways to take screenshots.
Furthermore, enabling screenshot detection for conversations would be pointless because users may still forward messages via this feature, which would allow them to be shared.
It’s also crucial to remember that if the user disables this optional privacy feature, all actions that are blocked by it will be enabled.
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