The world’s most popular messaging platform WhatsAppgets a new feature that will break friendships. The platform, which wants to add more privacy to the application, will prevent saving screenshots or videos that can be opened once. Screenshots or video recordings will not be allowed.
Privacy considerations have arrived
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg The privacy measures announced in August by WhatsApp have started to come to WhatsApp. Android for WhatsApp 2.22.22.3 Within the scope of the new feature that can be tested in the version, “View once” It will not be possible to save screenshots and videos of media marked as .
Reactions from users
WhatsApp, When you want to save media with “View once” selected, it shows a warning saying “Cannot take screenshots due to security policy”. This change, which was started to be tested among beta users, received mixed reactions from users.
It is possible to take screenshots or video recordings using third-party software. However, it was noticed that the recorded image or video was completely black. However, it is worth noting that even if you try to take a screenshot, there is no notification to the other party.
As a classic method, it is possible to take a photo/video using a secondary phone or tablet. In addition, when WhatsApp comes to the Web, it is thought that this feature can be bypassed with recording programs. It is unclear when this feature, which was introduced to the WhatsApp beta for Android, will come to the stable version.