WhatsApp launches end-to-end encrypted chat backups on Android, iOS

WhatsApp, for long, has been said to be working on a feature that would secure its chat backups on Google Drive and Apple’s iCloud using end-to-end encryption (E2E) technique. End-to-end encryption is the same technique that WhatsApp uses to safeguard all the communication taking place on its platform. Reports in the past have detailed how this feature could be implemented. Now, months later, WhatsApp has finally announced that it is rolling out end-to-end encrypted chat backups on its platform.

“People can already backup their WhatsApp message history via cloud-based services like Google Drive and iCloud. WhatsApp does not have access to these backups, and they are secured by the individual cloud-based storage services.