The feature is being tested and will be available to users “soon”, WhatsApp says.īlocked screenshots are not a guarantee of security, since users can always take a picture of the screen with another device, or receive the message on a “rooted” or “jailbroken” device. Now, WhatsApp will borrow another feature from Snapchat and attempt to block screenshots for those messages.
Users can already send Snapchat-style ephemeral messages with the “view once” setting on the chat app, which deletes the image after it has been viewed. The company is calling the updates “privacy features”, which include others that it says enhance security for users. After the update, part of a series arriving on the app over the coming month, users will be able to leave a group silently, with only the administrators receiving a notification.
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