Improve security and privacy in WhatsApp
WhatsApp is one of the most used applications on the planet and that we all have installed on our iPhone It will surely be one of the ones you use the most , TRUE?. Today we are going to go over some app settings to see if we can improve your level of security and privacy in the app.
Just download and install WhatsApp we accept a few permissions that you probably don't remember. These are access to our mobile contacts, access to the camera and microphone of the iPhone, access to the location, access to the photos in our reel, to notifications.All the permissions that you have given to the application can be seen in Settings/WhatsApp .
I bet you didn't know you had accepted so many permissions, right? Well, for the proper functioning of the app, many of them are essential to have them active, but we can eliminate them and make some adjustments to the application to improve our level of security and privacy.
If you want to improve security and privacy on WhatsApp, follow these tips :
Blocks access to WhatsApp:
Prevents anyone who has access to your terminal from entering your WhatsApp account. To do this, activate the following setting: Access WhatsApp, then click on settings/privacy and activate the "Screen lock" option. This will mean that to open the app you need to access it by showing your face, applying your fingerprint or entering a code.
In the following video we explain it more in depth:
How to prevent being added to WhatsApp groups:
If you don't want any contact to add you to WhatsApp groups without permission, you can avoid it as follows: Go to WhatsApp and then Settings/Privacy/Groups . From there you can manage who you give permission to add you to a group.
In the following video we explain it more in depth:
Avoid showing your name in the info. from WhatsApp:
Even if you don't know it, there are people who are looking for people of interest on WhatsApp. They enter phone numbers to see if they can access your profile picture and your name. Many people when they install WhatsApp, put their name in the info. of your profile, which we do not recommend. It is always better to put a sentence and even put some emojis.
If you put your name, anyone can know your name as long as you share a WhatsApp group or start a chat with you.To avoid this, access WhatsApp, click on settings and click on your profile image. Under it appears a place where you can put info. We recommend not putting your name.
If you want more information about it, click on the following article where we discuss the topic of how to see people's names on WhatsApp.
Privacy settings in WhatsApp:
It's a topic that you probably already know but it doesn't hurt to go over it again. Entering WhatsApp and accessing Settings/Account/Privacy, we can manage who can see and who can't, almost all our information.
Privacy settings in WhatsApp
We can choose who can see our last time online, our profile picture, our info. . A way to control who can access private information.
Avoid read receipts and increase your privacy on WhatsApp:
This is one of the most controversial settings in the app. Dialing the double blue check to reveal that we have read a message, is something that many people are not willing to share. This information has given many headaches and misunderstandings in WhatsApp chats, what have you ever experienced?
Well, we can deactivate it by going to Settings/Account/Privacy and deactivating the “Read receipts” option. Of course, if you do, you know that you will not know when your contacts have read your messages either. If you want more information about it, read our article in which we talk about how to deactivate the blue checks in the app
Prevent showing WhatsApp messages on iPhone lock screen:
If you don't want to show the messages that come to you on your iPhone's lock screen, there is a way to prevent them from showing.We all know that we can leave our mobile on a table and receive messages that anyone can read if they are near the terminal. But there are ways around it. In the following video we talk about it:
Enable 2-Step Verification:
For greater security, we recommend that you activate two-step verification. This will require a PIN when you re-register your phone number in WhatsApp. This allows us to prevent anyone from taking over our account.
Imagine you buy a new mobile and you have to activate WhatsApp on it. When you download the app and enter your phone number, you will receive a personal or unique PIN that will give you permission to activate it. Highly recommend doing so.
Control who you share your WhatsApp STATUS with:
It is something that many people ask us and it is something to take into account when they can access the information that we can share through this WhatsApp function.
We recommend configuring status privacy from Settings/Account/Privacy/Status and giving permission to the people you really want to share them with.
For more information we recommend you watch this video:
Disable location permission and improve privacy on WhatsApp:
It is one of the options that we can disable if we don't use it much. It is not that WhatsApp has us controlled, but it is always good to share the less information about us, the better. That is why if you want to send your location live, you must have it active, but if you want to send your location specifically, it is not necessary to give this permission to the app.
To deactivate it, we access the iPhone settings and look for the WhatsApp app. Click on it and click on the "Location" option. From the available options we mark “Never” .
Surely now you are wondering how you can share your location if you have denied permission to the app, right?Well, for this we are going to follow the steps that we will discuss in the following tutorial. In it we talk about how to send the location by Whatsapp without giving permission to the app
Avoid sharing your location in real time:
There have been cases of people who have controlled the location of others through this WhatsApp function. It is relatively easy to activate it, there are even people who manage to share the live location of people who do not even realize it. They take their mobile, share it and send many messages to hide it in the list of chat messages. There really are people for everything and we tell you this because we have received queries of this type.
To see if you are sharing your live location with someone, WhatsApp enabled an option that allows you to check it. From Settings / Account / Privacy we see an option called “Location in real time”. There it will tell us if we are sharing it with someone or not.
If we want to continue sharing it, we do nothing, but if we want to cancel it, click on the option and then click on "Stop sharing" .
Stop real-time location sharing
This is it. We hope you have been interested in the article and share it with all your contacts to help them make their WhatsApp. accounts more secure and private
