Passkeys will allow you to use your fingerprint, face, or screen lock code to end-to-end encrypt your chat backups, so you no ...

This means if you lose your device, you can use methods like fingerprint, face, or the screen lock code of your previous ...

Face, finger or lock-screen code: These passkeys are all you will need to encrypt your WhatsApp chat backups in the near future, the messaging app announced Thursday. Meta-owned WhatsApp, the most ...

WhatsApp will now encrypt your chat backups with passkey. Instead of juggling passwords or copying a 64-digit key, you can ...

In the beginning, WhatsApp users could not protect their chat backups with encryption—while all communications were encrypted end-to-end, backups weren't afforded the same protection. Since 2021, ...

WhatsApp was the first private messaging app to offer end-to-end encryption for your chat backups so that your old messages ...

During a discussion at an event for Global Encryption Day 2025, a former investigator joined technologists and activists in ...

WhatsApp earlier brought end-to-end encryption for chat backups, ensuring your past messages remain yours. The new ...

WhatsApp said passkeys will be stored in a password manager instead of on-device, enabling users to sign in to other devices ...