WhatsApp to Add Support for Passkey-Encrypted Backups

WhatsApp this week announced that it is adding passkey-encrypted chat backups, allowing users support their stored messages utilizing Touch ID oregon Face ID alternatively of a 64-digit key.


The diagnostic extends the app's 2021 end-to-end encrypted backup system, which antecedently required users to make and prevention a lengthy cardinal to reconstruct chats. With passkeys, authentication uses each device's built-in authentication hardware similar ‌Touch ID‌ oregon ‌Face ID‌, meaning the backstage cryptographic cardinal ne'er leaves the phone. This makes backups some much unafraid and overmuch easier to restore.

The rollout is acceptable to beryllium planetary and gradual implicit the coming weeks. Users tin alteration it via Settings → Chats → Chat backup → End-to-end encrypted backup erstwhile available. iCloud and Google Drive stay the retention destinations for iOS and Android, respectively. The determination continues Meta's broader adoption of passkeys, which WhatsApp archetypal supported for relationship logins successful 2023.
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