After several years offering conversations with WhatsApp encryption upgrade this security and go further. The company is the first service to launch end-to-end or end-to-end encryption for cloud backups. Until now, it only did it locally on devices that used WhatsApp: now this security goes further and also has a place in the cloud of iCloud or Google Drive. It is an important novelty that you must take into account if you make backup copies of WhatsApp.
Improvements in WhatsApp backup on Android and IOS
From this very moment WhatsApp is implementing its new cloud backups. If you have configured a backup in the cloud every so often this will be affected, if you want, by the new function.
This great novelty is the end-to-end or end-to-end encryption that WhatsApp has been using locally for several years. This means that the services that perform this backup -Google Drive and iCloud- will not have access to the information you upload as a backup.
This information it will be fully encrypted with a 64-digit key that is generated automatically or a password that you enter. Without this key it is impossible to access the content of the backup, so no one will have access to your content, not even the cloud service.
Be very careful with losing the copy password
If you select a password for encryption you must remember it well. Otherwise, you will not be able to restore the copy ever again. This is why it is important that, if you activate the encrypted backup, remember the password. This will be necessary in case you want to restore the conversations on another device that you buy.
This new encrypted copy feature is launching right now and it will reach devices around the world in a phased manner. You, as a user, have the possibility of not using encryption if you don’t want to.
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