Message privately
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 its 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.
Disappearing messages
With disappearing messages, you can control which messages stick around and for how long, by setting them up to disappear after youve sent them.
Silence unknown callers
Screen out spam and unknown contacts from calling you, so you can focus on conversations that really matter to you.
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.
Last seen
and online
Choose to be seen by only those you want. You can customize your privacy settings to choose who can see when youre online, and when you last used WhatsApp.
Security
and safety
Protect your account from hackers and scammers and stop unwanted chats.
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