{"id":186775,"date":"2016-11-11T17:17:22","date_gmt":"2016-11-11T15:17:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=186775"},"modified":"2016-11-11T17:20:55","modified_gmt":"2016-11-11T15:20:55","slug":"whatsapp-two-factor-authentication-launched","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/smartphones\/186775-whatsapp-two-factor-authentication-launched.html","title":{"rendered":"WhatsApp two-factor authentication launched"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WhatsApp has launched two-factor authentication in the latest beta version of the app\u00a0on Android, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.androidpolice.com\/2016\/11\/10\/whatsapp-enables-two-step-verification-can-now-play-audio-messages-background\/\" target=\"_blank\">Android Police reported<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>It isn&#8217;t clear which versions of the app support the feature, but according to the report, at least v2.16.341 and above will have it.<\/p>\n<p>Two-factor authentication\u00a0for WhatsApp works by setting a six-digit PIN and recovery email for your phone number.<\/p>\n<p>Once set, no one will be able to activate WhatsApp using your\u00a0phone number unless they have the passcode or access to the email account.<\/p>\n<p>Another feature\u00a0enabled in the latest Android beta of WhatsApp is the\u00a0ability to play voice messages in the background.<\/p>\n<p>This means you will be able to begin playing a voice message, then navigate to a different conversation or even close WhatsApp while the message continues playing.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/186461-unlimited-whatsapp-anywhere-in-the-world.html\">Unlimited WhatsApp anywhere in the world<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WhatsApp has enabled two-factor authentication in some of the beta versions of its Android app.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":131328,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17934],"tags":[36,2594],"class_list":["post-186775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-smartphones","tag-active","tag-whatsapp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186775"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186775"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":186777,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186775\/revisions\/186777"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}