What’s up? started offering an option that prevents users from performing screenshots and videos sent with a single view setting.
In order to provide more privacy, the messaging app has developed this mode. Option blocks media files saved in the recipient’s Photos and Gallery.
Once an image or video is sent with this single view setting, it is not allowed to be forwarded to other WhatsApp contacts. He can’t save them either. highlight or share.
It’s currently possible to take screenshots wherever it’s seen, as the company’s website states. media files before it disappears. In this case, the application does not notify the user that the recipient has taken a screenshot.
WhatsApp now offers a feature to prevent and block these screenshots, as WABetaInfo warned in the latest beta of WhatsApp. WhatsApp for Android 2.22.22.3.
Therefore, if the sender has activated this option, it will be recorded as a recording when the receiver will capture. black file. Also, the app will state at the bottom that “capture is not possible due to security policy”.
This functionality is limited to images and videos only, as it is still possible to take screenshots of conversations, as this portal points out.
WABetaInfo noted that this feature is currently only available to some beta testers of Android OS devices.
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