New Delhi: WhatsApp is now expanding their privacy and protection for their users, recently they have announced that they are going to introduce an latest method for its users to access their encrypted chat backups with the passkey support, by this their all of the old chats will protected by an strong passkey protection, when they will enter passkey then they can able to access their chat backups process. This latest passkey will enable the users to encrypt their chat backups using their fingerprint, face unlock or screen lock code instead of them having to remember a password or a 64-digit encryption key.
an easier way to encrypt your WhatsApp chat backups is rolling out now with passkeys 🔒
use your fingerprint, face, or screen lock code to add extra security to your chat backups: Settings > Chats > Chat backup > End-to-end encrypted backup
— WhatsApp (@WhatsApp) October 30, 2025
This platform initially rolled out the option for users to encrypt their chat backups to the cloud in 2021. Users will enable the encrypted passkey under the settings tab. They will have to turn on the End-to-end encrypted backup option in the Chats option, which is under the Chat backup. This latest update will be rolled out gradually for all users in the upcoming weeks.
WhatsApp has introduced a new advanced privacy feature for users in both individual and group chats that lets only the sender and the recipient see the texts, which is a good protection feature they have introduced. And now, WhatsApp is rolling out some crazy features which are pretty similar to the Instagram platform, which is a good thing they are doing for their platform and for their users also.
