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Your privacy is our priority. With end-to-end
encryption on WhatsApp,
your personal
messages, photos, calls and more stay
between you and the people you choose,
meaning not
even WhatsApp can see them.
Whether it’s your confessions, your difficult debates,
or
silly inside jokes, WhatsApp privacy
helps your
conversations stay protected.
End-to-end
encryption
Personal messages, calls, photos and
videos are secured with a lock with
end-to-end
encryption on WhatsApp,
only the recipient and you have the
special key needed to unlock and
read
them.
Additional layers of
privacy
Beyond end-to-end encryption,
WhatsApp offers additional layers of
protection to all of
your conversations.
Control the privacy
you need
With WhatsApp privacy settings, you
get to choose what you share, how
you show up online,
or who can talk to
you.
Chat lock
Password protect your most personal chats so you can help keep them private
and secure.
Locked chats will be hidden from your chats list in the Locked Chats
folder, so you can prevent
anyone
else using your phone from seeing them.
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Disappearing messages
With disappearing messages, you can control which messages stick around
and for how
long, by
setting them up to disappear after you’ve sent them.
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Silenceunknown callers
Screen out spam and unknown contacts from calling you, so you can focus on conversations that really matter to you.
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End-to-End Encrypted backups
Keep your online backups private. Turn on encrypted backups to extend the security of WhatsApp end-to-end encryption to your messages saved in iCloud or Google Drive.
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Last seenand online
Choose to be seen by only those you want. You can customize your privacy settings to choose who can see when you’re online, and when you last used WhatsApp.
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Security and safety
Protect your account from hackers and scammers and stop unwanted chats.
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