WhatsApp to soon prevent users from taking screenshots of profile pictures
WhatsApp has already prevented people from taking screenshots of one-view photos or videos, but soon the same feature will be rolled out to your profile pictures as well. The upcoming option has been spotted in Android beta version 2.24.4.25 which will be released in the coming weeks.
WhatsApp gives people their profile picture, but for the longest time people have pointed out the lack of security if someone tries to take a screenshot of their photo, which is a privacy nightmare and can be used for the wrong times.
Taking a screenshot is a serious invasion of a person’s privacy, and in most cases you won’t even notice when someone does that to your photo. However, WhatsApp has found a clever way to warn a person, and the same applies when they try to take a profile picture.
The messaging app first offers a black screen instead of taking a picture and notifies the owner with a message that says “Can’t take screenshot due to app restrictions.” It looks like WhatsApp doesn’t have this privacy feature optional, which means you can’t manually change the privacy settings if you want to do that.
WhatsApp is not the only platform owned by Meta to support this feature. Facebook has provided a unique profile picture protection tool that prevents others from taking a screenshot of the photo. The messaging app is also developing new formatting styles for text, and recently users have four more options to add bulleted points, numbered points, inline and block quotes while sending text on WhatsApp. These shortcuts are available for WhatsApp users on mobile devices, desktops and even the web version that works on browsers.
