Widely popular and highly personalised messaging app WhatsApp has been on the radar over privacy concerns. Users have now started questioning the security of their data despite end-to-end encryption. Here are some ways to help you protect your WhatsApp data.
Two-factor authentication
This feature has become increasingly popular and is optional on WhatsApp. It adds more security to your account. Once you enable this two-step verification, any attempt to verify the phone number on WhatsApp will ask for a six-digit passcode that is created by the user. You can use your email address as well. This email address will allow WhatsApp to send you a link via email to disable two-step verification in case you ever forget your six-digit PIN.
For enabling this feature, go to Settings, then Account, two-step verification, Tap Enable, Add 6-digit PIN, confirm 6-digit PIN, add email address (if you wish to use email address for WhatsApp to send you a link), confirm email address, tap Save and it's done.
For iOS, the option of 'Settings' is given at the bottom right corner on the app screen.