Even though we sometimes neglect ourselves, we are becoming more and more aware of how important our privacy is. There are many ways to improve our privacy on our mobile phones, and the most used applications are quite transparent about this, but we can always go a little further.

And we can be vulnerable because of our mistakes or because someone took our mobile phone. We will focus on WhatsApp because A very easy action that we recommend you do from time to time. so no one can spy on your conversations.

How to control and disable connected devices on WhatsApp

First, let’s address this last issue: no, there is no way to spy on WhatsApp unless you leave it open or someone takes your phone and gets into the app and sees what you’re typing on it.

The latter is easy to control, but Yes, it is possible to leave WhatsApp open on other computers. If we have a public computer or go to the library, if we don’t log in to the browser and then close it or something like that, we’re leaving a window open to our account.

It is also possible that this is not an act of carelessness, but that someone took our mobile phone, opened an account on WhatsApp Web and verified the credentials in our WhatsApp account. It is clear that we are faced with a much more serious situation here, but the solution to both situations is the same: block remote access.

And that’s it, WhatsApp offers us a tool to see on which devices our account is openand it’s not a bad idea to go to this section from time to time and see if everything is as it should be.

Then we will tell you what the steps are:

• The first thing to do is to click on the three vertical dots in the upper right. When the menu appears we go to ‘Connected devices’.
• The screen that opens includes a list of connected devices as well as the option to ‘Pair a device’.
• We can easily choose to log out by clicking on each one.

This section is very useful because it is very simple We can see which device it is open on.so the client, if the session is currently active and first of all we have the logout button.

It’s a good idea to protect WhatsApp with your fingerprint

Now, if you suspect a situation where your phone might be stolen for a few seconds to read your chats or create a session on WhatsApp Web, It’s a good idea to protect WhatsApp with your fingerprint.

Below we leave you the steps you need to follow:

• Here are the things we need to do to block WhatsApp with fingerprint:
• We click on the three vertical dots at the top right and go to ‘Settings’.
• Inside we must go to the ‘Privacy’ tab.
• You’ll need to scroll a bit until you find ‘fingerprint unlock’.
• We activate the option… and that’s it.

An interesting thing is that We can choose to block WhatsApp with our fingerprint as soon as we exit the application (no need to close, just log out of WhatsApp or switch apps to the mobile control panel), the time we spend a minute outside or the time we spend 30 minutes.

And there is no It’s not like we lock our mobile phone with fingerprint If we don’t do this right, we can unlock with PIN: If you don’t unlock WhatsApp with your fingerprint, you won’t be able to unlock it. This is a very interesting security option because someone can know your PIN, but copying your fingerprint is a little more complicated.

With that we would be ready and would have implemented two actions to at least provide some more security on our account.

Cover photo | Alejandro Alcolea

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