WhatsApp is quietly adding a new feature to its Android app, expands users' ability to re-download deleted media files. Even if users remove the photos, GIFs, or videos from their on-board storage or SD cards, users will be able to go back and grab the media files from within chats. …

Facebook-owned WhatsApp has recently rolled a new feature that allows the users to retrieve deleted media files. In other words, the new feature will enable users to redownload media files even if it was deleted from the phone. According to a report by WABetaInfo, WhatsApp has introduced a feature … Read …

WhatsApp has always been defensive about the data shared by them with Facebook. They have always maintained that “every message is end-to-end encrypted” and said that they use 'very little data' with Facebook. However, there are two ways by which you can take the extra step of feeling safe and … …

The photo was part of a stream of WhatsApp messages dating back several months. Thomas said: "It had a number of texts such as 'what do you want to buy?' on it. There was then the photograph of the hand holding pills that seemed like it was sent to potential …

Any pictures, videos, GIFs, documents or voice notes that were sent and subsequently deleted can be recovered. The update is available now to Android users worldwide but WhatsApp has not revealed whether it will release the feature to iPhone users. With the ability to recover deleted information, … Read More

O) WhatsApp and Telegram – a favorite of President Emmanuel Macron – are based in France, raising the risk of data breaches at servers outside the country. About 20 officials and top civil servants are testing the new app which a state-employed developer has designed, a ministry spokeswoman said, … Read …

Even on encrypted messaging platforms, be careful what you send. Police officers in South Wales were able to identify a drug dealer's fingerprints from an old WhatsApp photo, the BBC reports. The fingerprint helped secure 11 drug-trafficking convictions, which are believed to be the first convictions in … Read More

WhatsApp is now rolling out the Request Money feature for the WhatsApp Pay users in India. The new feature allows a user request money from the contact that the latter will pay using the UPI and QR code options. However, the individual selection of a contact to request money is …

WABetaInfo which first discovered the feature said that they were able to download the deleted media— image, video, GIF, voice message and a document—from the WhatsApp servers even after they were deleted from the phone. The new feature to tweak this has been introduced in WhatsApp's recent … Read More

Now a recent report from the UK shows what modern technology can do when access to apps like WhatsApp is obtained. Cops in Wales managed to use a picture sent via the popular chat app to extract fingerprints belonging to a suspected drug dealer. That evidence was then used to …