WhatsApp’s new privacy features: Here’s everything you need to know

Mark Zuckerberg, Chief Executive Officer, Meta Platforms, Inc. on August 9 introduced a new WhatsApp privacy initiative with three latest features. After the update, an user can restrict people from taking screenshots of a photo or video with the help of pre-existing “view-once” feature.

The new privacy features provide interlocking layers of security and better control over your information/messages on WhatsApp. While calls and messages on WhatsApp are end-to-end encrypted, they have worked to improve performance and introduce new features like disappearing messages, end-to-end encrypted backups, blocking and reporting unwanted contacts, and two-step verification.