WhatsApp is officially informing its billions of iPhone and Android users about a major change available right now to their mobile devices. Not long ago, those at WhatsApp implemented an extremely important function in the messaging application that gives us the opportunity to encrypt backups with information about the conversations we have, but also with all their content.
WhatsApp Messenger has implemented this functionality for both iPhone and Android, and thanks to it, no one will be able to access the data from our backups, even if they have them. Based on this change, our WhatsApp Messenger backups will be loaded already encrypted in Apple and Google's servers, so no matter who asks for them, or who downloads them, they will not be able to see absolutely any information from them .
WhatsApp: ATTENTION! OFFICIAL notification of a MAJOR Change on iPhone, Android
WhatsApp talks below about these types of backups for iPhone and Android, including information on how we can activate them at any time on our devices. There is a special section within the WhatsApp application through which we can activate these encrypted backups, but it is extremely important to follow the instructions strictly, and to remember the information with which you protected the data at the time of activating the encryption for them.
Meet encrypted backups 👋
When you turn on end-to-end encrypted backups, it encrypts all your personal WhatsApp photos, videos and more when saved to iCloud or Google Drive.
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- WhatsApp (@WhatsApp) August 23
WhatsApp Messenger says that the system is so good that if we forget the password we set when we encrypted the backup, the data cannot be recovered by anyone. In this idea, it is very important to follow all the instructions to encrypt WhatsApp backups on iPhone and Android, because if you do it incorrectly, you will be left without all the data from them, but you will be able to restore the backups with the information which you still have in your phones.
WhatsApp allows us to use encrypted backups right now if we have the latest versions of the iPhone and Android applications installed on our phones.
