WhatsApp introduces Advanced Chat Privacy to protect your chats

WhatsApp has launched a new feature called Advanced Chat Privacy. This new setting helps prevent others from taking content outside of WhatsApp, and is useful for those who require extra discretion.

By default, personal messages and calls are protected by end-to-end encryption, meaning that only the sender and recipient can read, listen to, or share your content.

That’s not all. Over the years, WhatsApp has added extra features to increase privacy. For example, when you send a photo, video, or voice chat message, you can set it to disappear from the chat after it’s been opened. The recipient can’t share, forward, copy, save, or take a screenshot of it.

On Wednesday, WhatsApp announced its latest privacy feature, Advanced Chat Privacy. This new setting, available in chats and groups, adds extra privacy to your conversations.

You can block others from exporting chats, auto-downloading media to their phone, and using messages for AI features when enabled. “That way, everyone in the chat has greater confidence that no one can take what is being said outside the chat,” WhatsApp says.

The chat app developer thinks this feature will work best in group chats, where you may not know everybody personally, and you may be cautious of what you put out there.

To enable WhatsApp’s latest privacy feature, you’ll have to tap the chat name and then select the option “Advanced Chat Privacy.” This will only work if you’ve installed the latest version of WhatsApp.

WhatsApp concludes its blog post by saying this is only the first version of the feature and that it plans to add even more protection in the future. It doesn't say what those additional features will be.