WhatsApp Updates

[Sushubh]

How Device Verification protects your WhatsApp account

WhatsApp has launched a new security feature that further helps prevent attackers from using vectors like on-device malware. This security feature, called Device Verification, requires no action or…

engineering.fb.com

 

[Sushubh]

Deploying key transparency at WhatsApp

WhatsApp has launched a new cryptographic security feature to automatically verify a secured connection based on key transparency. The feature requires no additional actions or steps from users an…

engineering.fb.com

 

[Sushubh]

Source

Keep In Chat: Your New Sender Superpower

You can now keep a message, voice note or key piece of information from disappearing. If you’ve sent the message, it’s your choice whether others in the chat can keep it for later.

blog.whatsapp.com

 

[Sushubh]

One WhatsApp account, now across multiple phones

We’ve improved our multi-device offering further by introducing the ability to use the same WhatsApp account on multiple phones.

blog.whatsapp.com

 

[Sushubh]

Truecaller aims to help WhatsApp users combat spam

Truecaller will soon start making its caller identification service available over WhatsApp and other messaging apps to help users spot potential spam calls over the internet, the company told Reuters on Monday.

www.reuters.com

 

[Tejas01]

Truecaller itself has become a spamware.

 

[Jonas]

I use truecaller web with an email that’s never used anywhere else.

 

[Nishant]

WhatsApp starts beta testing Wear OS app

A big part of Wear OS 3 was getting more third-party developers on the platform, and WhatsApp is now testing an app for the...

9to5google.com

Just tried it on my Samsung Watch 4. It activates as a new device and appears under 'linked devices' as 'Wear OS'. Works great.

 

[hallow2087]

@Tejas01 Truecaller itself has become a spamware.

Its intentions were bad from very beginning. all those years ago when I begged people to not register their details into that shady app nobody listened. Now we have today. They first sold our info to multiple agencies, and now charging us back to block those very same ones.

 

[Sushubh]

"I Got A WhatsApp Video Call And My Life Turned Into A Nightmare" | BOOM

A recent surge in unknown Whatsapp video calls in India has left many users in distress. This is what happened to a man in Kashmir in 2021.

www.boomlive.in

Anyone here on WhatsApp beta channel? Someone on reddit said they are allowing blocking calls from unknown numbers in beta builds.