WhatsApp is launching a brand new “Superior Chat Privateness” characteristic that goals to forestall folks from taking conversations exterior the app. When the setting is turned on, you’ll be able to block others from exporting your chat historical past and robotically downloading images and movies despatched within the app.
The characteristic will stop folks from utilizing messages for Meta AI as nicely, which you’ll be able to at the moment use to ask questions inside a chat and generate photos.
By default, WhatsApp saves images and movies in a chat to your cellphone’s native storage. It additionally enables you to and your recipients export chats (with or with out media) to your messages, electronic mail, or notes app. The Superior Chat Privateness setting will stop this in group and particular person chats.
WhatsApp doesn’t say whether or not Superior Chat Privateness will stop folks from taking screenshots of your messages, or if customers can nonetheless manually obtain media from chats. The Verge reached out to WhatsApp for extra info however didn’t instantly hear again.
“We predict this characteristic is finest used when speaking with teams the place chances are you’ll not know everybody intently however are nonetheless delicate in nature,” WhatsApp says in its announcement. WABetaInfo first noticed this characteristic earlier this month, and now it’s rolling out to the most recent model of the app.
You possibly can activate the setting by tapping the identify of your chat and deciding on Superior Chat Privateness. WhatsApp says that is solely the “first model” of this characteristic, as the corporate plans so as to add extra protections sooner or later.
