San Francisco: Meta-owned messaging platform WhatsApp is reportedly engaged on a brand new passkey characteristic for account verification on Android beta.
The passkey characteristic will present customers with a simple solution to register safely, stories WABetaInfo.
A passkey is a brief sequence of numbers or letters that’s used to confirm customers’ id. It additionally serves as a form of safety code that makes positive that solely authorised gadgets will be verified.
“Since the passkey will use your fingerprint, face, or screen lock to verify your identity, this definitely enhances security, adding an extra layer of protection beyond traditional methods like PINs,” the report mentioned.
The passkey characteristic is presently underneath growth and is predicted to be obtainable in a future replace of the app.
On Sunday, it was reported that the messaging platform had began to roll out an admin overview characteristic for group chats on Android beta.
The characteristic permits everybody within the group chat to report messages shared within the dialog to the group admins. With this characteristic, the group admins can achieve help in monitoring the group even when they don’t seem to be there.
Last month, the corporate had launched new security instruments for when customers obtain messages from unknown telephone numbers, on Android beta.
The platform additionally rolled out a ‘hyperlink with telephone quantity’ characteristic on Android beta, which permits customers to hyperlink their account to WhatsApp Web by utilizing their telephone quantity.
In June, the Meta-owned platform had launched a characteristic which permits customers to ship high-quality movies, on Android beta.
While this characteristic preserves video dimensions, minor compression will nonetheless be utilized to the video, thus sending movies of their authentic high quality isn’t attainable.
