Mobile News Desk – Recently there has been a big allegation on the famous instant messaging app WhatsApp. According to reports, WhatsApp is accessing your phone’s microphone in the background. This allegation has been made by an engineer. Since then the world’s attention turned to this matter. The person making the allegations has also shared the screenshot related to it. Apart from the engineer, many other users have also complained about this to the company.
Is this happening with you too? If you suspect that WhatsApp is accessing your microphone, check it immediately. For this, a simple method is being told here, using which you will be able to know what is the truth? First of all, you have to go to your phone and open the setting of WhatsApp. After opening the setting, click to go to the privacy of WhatsApp.
After going to the privacy and security setting, here you will have to see the timeline of all the apps using the microphone. Here you will come to know whether your WhatsApp is using the microphone or not. Through this timeline, you can know whether WhatsApp was using your microphone even when you were not using it.
If you are using Android-12 or above version then you will get to see this type of problem. WhatsApp has responded to this after receiving the complaint. WhatsApp says that this must have happened due to a bug. Since this case, many questions are being raised regarding the privacy of the company.