WhatsApp is testing a brand new “superior chat privateness” choice that permits you to management whether or not others you’re chatting with can simply export your chats or mechanically save media you ship them, stories WABetaInfo. The characteristic appeared in a latest app beta on iOS, and WABetaInfo noticed the toggle in an Android beta on Friday as properly.
The brand new superior chat privateness toggle is discovered within the settings for each single and group chats, in accordance with WABetaInfo. As soon as it’s turned on, it would maintain particular person customers or these in a bunch chat from exporting the entire chat historical past exterior WhatsApp. It is going to additionally maintain photos and movies in a thread from mechanically saving to system galleries — it’s not clear from the article whether or not customers can nonetheless manually save them, and Meta’s description of the characteristic in WABetaInfo’s screenshots doesn’t point out it.
When enabled in a bunch chat, everybody within the chat will probably be notified that the superior chat privateness setting is on. The toggle additionally apparently turns off Meta AI, which can be utilized in chats to do issues like reply questions or generate photos.
As WABetaInfo notes, whereas the brand new choice prevents total chats from being exported, it’s nonetheless potential to ahead particular person messages or screenshot them if the setting is on, so it will decelerate efforts to protect your chats, however not cease them fully. You possibly can lock down your chats extra with WhatsApp’s current disappearing messages, which may be set to auto-delete after an period of time you decide. The superior chat privateness setting is just obtainable in beta for now, and there’s no indication of when it would get a wider rollout.
