{"id":303404,"date":"2019-04-17T08:33:49","date_gmt":"2019-04-17T06:33:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=303404"},"modified":"2019-04-17T08:34:27","modified_gmt":"2019-04-17T06:34:27","slug":"new-whatsapp-feature-will-block-conversation-screenshots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/303404-new-whatsapp-feature-will-block-conversation-screenshots.html","title":{"rendered":"New WhatsApp feature will block conversation screenshots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WhatsApp has submitted a new update for the beta version of its Android application, providing more information on its upcoming authentication feature, <a href=\"https:\/\/wabetainfo.com\/whatsapp-beta-for-android-2-19-106-whats-new\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>WABetaInfo<\/strong><\/a> reports.<\/p>\n<p>The authentication feature is still under development, but once launched it will allow users to lock WhatsApp behind fingerprint authentication.<\/p>\n<p>However, a side effect of enabling this feature is that users will no longer be able to take screenshots of their conversations.<\/p>\n<p>Users can set WhatsApp to automatically lock after a period of time, and while the app is locked users will still be able to reply to messages from notifications and answer calls.<\/p>\n<p>Other new features being tested in the update include an improved UI for WhatsApp Doodle, which is reportedly currently available to all beta users.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/smartphones\/303224-using-whatsapp-on-a-r249-smartphone-not-for-the-faint-hearted.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Using WhatsApp on a R249 smartphone \u2013 Not for the faint-hearted<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WhatsApp has submitted a new update for the beta version of its Android application, providing more information on its upcoming authentication feature.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341028,"featured_media":168223,"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_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[44158,58628,58630,2594],"class_list":["post-303404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-authentication","tag-conversation","tag-screenshots","tag-whatsapp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303404"}],"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\/341028"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303404"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":303424,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303404\/revisions\/303424"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}