{"id":417336,"date":"2021-10-07T12:09:06","date_gmt":"2021-10-07T10:09:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=417336"},"modified":"2021-10-07T14:49:20","modified_gmt":"2021-10-07T12:49:20","slug":"big-security-update-for-whatsapp-on-ios","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/417336-big-security-update-for-whatsapp-on-ios.html","title":{"rendered":"Big security update for WhatsApp on iOS"},"content":{"rendered":"

WhatsApp is working on a new feature in its iOS beta that will allow users to back up their conversations with end-to-end encryption, according to a WABetaInfo report<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The feature offers the ability to secure conversation backups on iCloud from unauthorised access with a password or 64-digit encryption key.<\/p>\n

Once encrypted, nobody\u2014including WhatsApp, Facebook, and Apple\u2014will be able to view the content of backed up conversations.<\/p>\n

The feature is currently available to WhatsApp iOS beta testers, who can activate the feature by taking the following steps:<\/p>\n

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  1. Tap on the settings tab.<\/li>\n
  2. Select Chats and then Chat Backup.<\/li>\n
  3. Select End-to-end Encrypted Backup.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Users will then be able to create a password or an encryption key.<\/p>\n

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    WhatsApp warns that “if you forget your password and lose your phone, WhatsApp cannot help you recover your backup”.<\/p>\n

    Those who want to use the feature should disable WhatsApp on their device’s backup system as conversations backed up to our iPhone are not end-to-end encrypted.<\/p>\n

    WhatsApp rolled out the feature for Android beta testers in July<\/a><\/strong>, and following testing on iOS, it should roll out for all users<\/a><\/strong> soon.<\/p>\n

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    Now Read: WhatsApp rival Telegram scores big during Facebook downtime<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    WhatsApp is testing end-to-end encrypted backups for iOS users which will make it impossible for Apple to decrypt backed up conversations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341076,"featured_media":417344,"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":[18],"tags":[605,161,607,691,57456,2594,73030],"class_list":["post-417336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-apple","tag-facebook","tag-icloud","tag-ios","tag-wabetainfo","tag-whatsapp","tag-whatsapp-backups"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417336"}],"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\/341076"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=417336"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":417402,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417336\/revisions\/417402"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/417344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}