Last Updated: March 14, 2024, 10:19 IST
WhatsApp is now providing the brand new privateness characteristic to its Android customers.
WhatsApp has been testing this privateness characteristic on Android for some time however now extra customers are seeing it roll out. But does it actually work?
WhatsApp has added a brand new layer of privateness for its customers, ensuring their profile image isn’t misused by taking screenshots. WhatsApp has already blocked folks from taking screenshots of 1-view images or movies, and now the identical characteristic is being enabled in your images on the messaging app as nicely.
Taking a screenshot is a critical invasion of an individual’s privateness and most often you don’t even come to know when somebody does that along with your image. But if that does occur along with your profile image on WhatsApp, the platform received’t provide you with an alert concerning the motion, however be sure that the ensuing screenshot of the image is clean and so they solely see a black display in entrance of them.
That’s what some folks have seen concerning the new characteristic, which hasn’t rolled out to everybody simply but however we anticipate that to occur within the subsequent few days and even weeks. As we seen with a current WhatsApp Android beta model 2.24.4.25, the messaging app informs the proprietor with a message that claims, “Can’t take a screenshot due to app restrictions.”
We may independently confirm this instrument and it does work. Having stated that, we did discover that you would be able to take the screenshot of the profile image while you click on on the contact from the chat window. WhatsApp doesn’t give folks an choice to alter the settings of this privateness characteristic so that you just don’t disable it, which isn’t the perfect factor for the privateness of the particular person. Facebook additionally has an identical instrument referred to as Profile Picture guard that blocks others from taking a screenshot of the picture.
The indisputable fact that the screenshot instrument blocker is now out there to a wider consumer base suggests the official launch isn’t far-off. We’re undecided if and when iPhone customers can anticipate the characteristic to roll out for his or her profile. Having this characteristic will give WhatsApp a giant benefit over its rivals like Signal and Telegram that don’t have this instrument.
