At the end of 2021, WhatsApp launched an extremely important function for iPhone and Android, and if you use any of the two types of phones, you must activate it and use it immediately on your devices.
More precisely, we are talking about the function that allows us to fully encrypt the backups we make in phones for conversations, they being automatically uploaded to iCloud and Google Drive by WhatsApp.
WhatsApp has implemented this new functionality as an additional security measure designed to give us the opportunity to enjoy increased security when it comes to protecting our conversations.
As some of you know very well, the encrypted backups loaded in iCLoud and Google Drive will not be able to be accessed by absolutely anyone who does not know the password to access them, which will keep our information completely safe.
Although WhatsApp encrypts data while transferring it between servers and phones, so that any of our messages remain protected, until the end of 2021 it did not offer protection for the backups that we upload to iCloud and Google Drive.
That has changed thanks to this function that you have to activate right now because it can assure you that when the conversations are saved in the cloud, only we will be able to access them, even if our accounts are hacked by someone. In an era where more and more emphasis is placed on protecting personal data, the function that is now available is one of the most important that has been offered by the platform so far.
To activate this function, you must open the WhatsApp application, then go to the settings menu, in the one for conversations, and there you will find another submenu that allows us to activate the encryption of the backups, but also by setting a password for them.
Setting a complex password can make the difference between having the information from these backups accessed by someone or not, so choose the password very carefully and be sure not to forget it because it will be impossible to access the information later.
