WhatsApp now lets you block people from exporting your entire chat history

WhatsApp is launching a new “Advanced Chat Privacy” diagnostic that aims to forestall radical from taking conversations extracurricular the app. When the mounting is turned on, you tin artifact others from exporting your chat past and automatically downloading photos and videos sent successful the app.

The diagnostic volition forestall radical from utilizing messages for Meta AI arsenic well, which you tin presently usage to inquire questions wrong a chat and generate images.

By default, WhatsApp saves photos and videos successful a chat to your phone’s section storage. It besides lets you and your recipients export chats (with oregon without media) to your messages, email, oregon notes app. The Advanced Chat Privacy mounting volition forestall this successful radical and idiosyncratic chats.

This diagnostic inactive doesn’t halt radical from taking screenshots of your messages oregon manually downloading media from chats, WhatsApp spokesperson Zade Alsawah confirmed to The Verge. However, WhatsApp says this is its “first version” of the feature, and that it plans to adhd much protections down the line.

“We deliberation this diagnostic is champion utilized erstwhile talking with groups wherever you whitethorn not cognize everyone intimately but are nevertheless delicate successful nature,” WhatsApp says successful its announcement. WABetaInfo first spotted this diagnostic earlier this month, and present it’s rolling retired to the latest mentation of the app. You tin crook connected the mounting by tapping the sanction of your chat and selecting Advanced Chat Privacy.

Update, April 23rd: Added accusation from WhatsApp.