WhatsApp may not be the most secure messaging platform, but it’s certainly the most popular. And while others, such as Signal and Wickr, are designed with a security-first approach, WhatsApp’s combination of end-to-end encryption and easy-to-use functionality has proven a market winner for more than ten years.
And so to WhatsApp’s latest planned update to make its 2 billion users even more secure and protected from prying eyes, while adding some neat new functionality as well. Until this update is available, your data is not as secure as you probably think—there’s a major security gap. But, as reported by WABetaInfo today, May 21, two critical changes are now in beta and are expected to be rolled-out soon.
The first is an absolute game-changer. Right now, hundreds of millions of iPhone users rely on “Chat Backup” to store message history and media on iCloud. When an iPhone is lost or changed, the full chat history with all its media can be restored. The issue, though, and it’s a big one, is that “media and messages you back up aren't protected by WhatsApp end-to-end encryption while in iCloud.” That means your private data can be accessed—it doesn’t have the same level of security as within WhatsApp itself. Most users are blissfully unaware of this.
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