{"id":45072,"date":"2025-04-23T23:13:07","date_gmt":"2025-04-23T23:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/45072\/"},"modified":"2025-04-23T23:13:07","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T23:13:07","slug":"whatsapp-now-lets-you-block-people-from-exporting-your-entire-chat-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/45072\/","title":{"rendered":"WhatsApp now lets you block people from exporting your entire chat history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">WhatsApp is <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.whatsapp.com\/introducing-advanced-chat-privacy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">launching a new<\/a> \u201cAdvanced Chat Privacy\u201d feature that aims to prevent people from taking conversations outside the app. When the setting is turned on, you can block others from exporting your chat history and automatically downloading photos and videos sent in the app.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">The feature will prevent people from using messages for Meta AI as well, which you can currently use to ask questions within a chat and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2024\/4\/18\/24134079\/meta-real-time-ai-image-generation-whatsapp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">generate images<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">By default, <a href=\"https:\/\/faq.whatsapp.com\/366146522333492\/?cms_platform=web\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WhatsApp saves photos<\/a> and videos in a chat to your phone\u2019s local storage. It also lets you and your recipients <a href=\"https:\/\/faq.whatsapp.com\/1180414079177245\/?locale=en_US&amp;cms_platform=android\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">export chats<\/a> (with or without media) to your messages, email, or notes app. The Advanced Chat Privacy setting will prevent this in group and individual chats.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">This feature still doesn\u2019t stop people from taking screenshots of your messages or manually downloading media from chats, WhatsApp spokesperson Zade Alsawah confirmed to The Verge. However, WhatsApp says this is its \u201cfirst version\u201d of the feature, and that it plans to add more protections down the line.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">\u201cWe think this feature is best used when talking with groups where you may not know everyone closely but are nevertheless sensitive in nature,\u201d WhatsApp says in its announcement. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/news\/644408\/whatsapp-meta-chat-privacy-setting-block-export\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WABetaInfo first spotted<\/a> this feature earlier this month, and now it\u2019s rolling out to the latest version of the app. You can turn on the setting by tapping the name of your chat and selecting <strong>Advanced Chat Privacy<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\"><strong>Update, April 23rd:<\/strong> Added information from WhatsApp.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WhatsApp is launching a new \u201cAdvanced Chat Privacy\u201d feature that aims to prevent people from taking conversations outside&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":45073,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[2062,598,12,811,326,53,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-45072","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-apps","9":"tag-meta","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-security","12":"tag-tech","13":"tag-technology","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114389818088937189","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45072\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}