After iOS beta testing, Meta-owned WhatsApp has began testing screenshot blocking on Android beta now that can forestall customers from taking screenshots to view as soon as photographs and movies, the media reported.
Meta Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg lately introduced three new privateness options on WhatsApp, giving customers extra management over their conversations and added layers of safety when messaging.
Screenshot blocking was a type of characteristic and was below improvement on WhatsApp beta for iOS, and has not been noticed on Android beta by WhatsApp beta tracker web site WABetaInfo.
“WhatsApp is engaged on a brand new presentation display that introduces the brand new model of view as soon as: due to this new model, it’s unimaginable to take screenshots to view as soon as photographs and movies,” the web site stated on Thursday.
When the recipient tries to take a screenshot to view as soon as photographs and movies, the screenshot will probably be routinely blocked however the sender won’t obtain any notification.
Nonetheless, a consumer can nonetheless take a photograph by utilizing a secondary telephone or digital camera.
New options permit WhatsApp customers to exit group chats with out notifying everybody, management who can see while you’re on-line and stop screenshots on view as soon as messages.
“We’ll preserve constructing new methods to guard your messages and preserve them as personal and safe as face-to-face conversations,” Zuckerberg had stated.
(Apart from the headline, the remainder of this IANS article is un-edited)
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