WhatsApp tests letting you block people from exporting your chats

is a weekend editor who covers the latest in tech and entertainment. He has written news, reviews, and more as a tech journalist since 2020. WhatsApp is testing a new “advanced chat privacy” option that lets you control whether others you’re chatting with can easily export your chats or automatically save media you send them, reports WABetaInfo. The feature appeared in a recent app beta on iOS, and WABetaInfo spotted the toggle in an Android beta on Friday as well. The new advanced chat privacy toggle is found in the settings for both single and group chats, according to WABetaInfo. Once it’s turned on, it will keep individual users or those in a group chat from exporting the whole chat history outside WhatsApp. It will also keep images and videos in a thread from automatically saving to device galleries — it’s not clear from the article whether users can still manually save them, and Meta’s description of the feature in WABetaInfo’s screenshots doesn’t mention it. When enabled in a ... Read full article.