WhatsApp Essential Features to Maintain Privacy

As a commitment to its users, WhatsApp's message sharing app provides essential features for users who want to keep their privacy protected.
WhatsApp Essential Features to Maintain Privacy
 "WhatsApp is committed to safeguarding user privacy. That commitment is carried out with the more advanced to protect its users, "said Sravanthi as Director of Communications WhatsApp, Saturday, September 14, 2019.

Some of the privacy features on WhatsApp can be utilized by users among others.

WhatsApp Essential Features to Maintain Privacy

End to End Encryption

End to End encryption suggests that end-to-end encryption indicates that both WhatsApp and third parties cannot read messages sent through the app. This feature gives users maximum privacy for conversations made with others.

Read Receipt

There are times when WhatsApp users need free time to reply to messages that are in this app. For that, users can take advantage of the Read Receipt feature by activating through the Settings menu and select Account and select Privacy. You can then disable Read Receipt or read receipts so that there is no sign indicating that you have read the message.

Turn Off Notifications

This feature is useful for those of you who want to disable notifications of all notifications from received messages. To enable it easily by going to the settings menu and selecting Notifications.

You can then specify which notifications you want to show. This applies to both personal and group messages. You can also specify notifications that appear on the screen in the form of banners, sounds, or vibrations.

Two-Step Verification

Two-step Verification is very useful if someone is not required to want to access your WhatsApp account so that the confidentiality of the information is kept secure.

The two-step verification feature can be enabled by going to the "Settings " menu and selecting  "Account " and selecting  "Two-step verification". After that, the user is prompted to enter a six-digit PIN.

Once asked to create a PIN, then the user will be asked to register a useful email if at any time forget the PIN's six digits.

Privacy

Through this feature you can restrict who can see your profile picture. This feature also applies to the status, last seen, about (About), to your live location settings.

To enable this WhatsApp feature by accessing the Settings menu and selecting Account, then select Privacy.