How to secure your WhatsApp chats?
WhatsApp has over a billion active users, which means a billion people use WhatsApp for their daily needs of messaging, photos, and video sharing every month. So the questions arise that how some can protect their privacy, their data on WhatsApp.
Although WhatsApp promised its users that its platform is completely safe and protected. But as aware internet user what you can to protect yourself, we'll discuss this in today's article.
There are some well-known tips and some tips that are rarely available on the internet that you need to follow to protect to data on WhatsApp.
How to protect your WhatsApp chats
Tips to protect your WhatsApp chats. Follow these tips and your WhatsApp chats will secure completely. Here are very things you can do to protect your messages:
1. Lock the app
The method of locking WhatsApp works very well when you leave your phone somewhere far away from your reach. If your phone is locked by few codes then no one else will not be able to open your WhatsApp except you. And this method is not only for WhatsApp, you can do this app lock method with any app on your phone.
So the question raise that how do you lock your WhatsApp because WhatsApp by default does not give this facility to its users. The answer to this question is that you can use any authentic app locking app that you can easily find on the Google play store. Moreover, most mobiles have the app lock feature. And if you have the advantage of this app lock feature on your mobile, then you must use it.
2. Do not take any backup for your WhatsApp chats
According to WhatsApp itself, WhatsApp uses end-to-end encryption to protect your messages. End-to-end encrypted service means no one can read your messages not even WhatsApp except you and your message receivers. But if you back up your WhatsApp chats into Google drive then there is a chance your WhatsApp can be stolen or leak. These backup files can be hacked.
The only way to prevent this is by turning off your WhatsApp backup. And for that, you need to go to the WhatsApp settings and find the WhatsApp chats backup option, and then turn it off.
3. Delete chats history from time to time
Deleting chat history is a very good way to prevent WhatsApp chats leaks. So from time to time, you should delete WhatsApp chat history. It'll be even better if you delete your chats just after completing the conversation. And by doing so you can even stop the person you're talking to from leaking your data to someone.
4. Enable two-step verification
It's really important to enable two-step verification when it comes to WhatsApp security. Two-step verification will require a PIN when registering your phone number with WhatsApp again.
5. Turn on the read receipts option
You should turn it on always. If you turned read receipts off, you won't send or receives read receipts, read receipts are always sent for group chats.
The next few tips that you need to keep in mind while typing the next message on WhatsApp:
6. Be mindful of what you share on WhatsApp
Always remember the things you're sharing can be recorded by your counterpart. Before sharing anything with anyone on WhatsApp think about what might happen if it gets leaked. And who are you sharing with?
7. Set your WhatsApp privacy setting correctly
WhatsApp privacy settings are very important when it's come to WhatsApp chats. Set this thing accordingly:
• Last seen
• Profile photo
• About
• Status
• Groups
• Live location
8. Block or report contacts and messages
What you should do when you get a lot of messages from unknown numbers? You can block or report the contacts and messages on WhatsApp.
Note: I will update this article from time to time whenever a method or tip comes up that can secure your WhatsApp chats even more
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