WhatsApp Blocks Profile Picture Screenshots; Tests Multiple Chats Pinning

WhatsApp is now blocking customers from taking screenshots of different customers’ profile footage on smartphones, a brand new privateness characteristic that’s extensively out there on Android handsets. Meta started testing the performance on the beta model of the app over the previous few weeks, and it’s now being enabled for all customers. Meanwhile, the corporate has began to permit beta testers to pin multiple message in a chat, permitting extra info to be simply accessed in particular person chats or group chats.

Meta is but to announce particulars of the privateness performance that blocks screenshots on a consumer’s profile image space. The rollout was noticed by Android Police, and customers on the secure and beta variations of WhatsApp for Android at the moment are blocked from capturing the display when they’re viewing one other consumer’s profile photograph. Users can nonetheless seize screenshots on WhatsApp for iOS on the beta and secure variations.

Gadgets 360 was capable of verify that WhatsApp blocks profile picture screenshots on a Samsung smartphone citing the machine’s safety coverage, whereas making an attempt to seize the display whereas one other consumer’s photograph is open on a Pixel 7a yields an all-black display.

However, you will need to notice that the characteristic that blocks screenshots on a consumer’s profile image doesn’t assure that one other consumer will not have the ability to save the picture. The new performance cannot cease a consumer from clicking a photograph of the display the place the picture is displayed, utilizing one other smartphone. Similarly, tapping on a consumer’s profile photograph on the primary chat checklist reveals a small thumbnail and WhatsApp doesn’t block screenshots there.

Meanwhile, characteristic tracker WABetaData noticed a change on the newest beta model of the app for Android smartphones — the flexibility to pin a number of messages on the prime of a chat. Users can at present pin a single message, however a future replace is anticipated to increase this to permit three messages to be pinned concurrently. Beta testers can already check out the improved characteristic by updating to WhatsApp beta for Android 2.24.6.15. It is anticipated to roll out to all customers on iOS and Android at a later date.