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When you buy a new phone and restore your WhatsApp account, the app verifies by sending you a six-digit code through SMS. However, the company’s working on another method to verify your account: flash calls. According to a report by reliableWABetaInfo, the chat app is testing this ability on Android. Here’s how it’ll work: you can opt-in to receive a call for verification instead of an SMS code. WhatsApp will call you for a brief moment and end the call; you don’t need to pick it up....

WhatsApp is finally letting users encrypt the backups of their messages. Facebook owner Mark Zuckerbergannounced on Thursdaythat the feature is now beingrolled out to iOS and Android users globally. The feature secures backups stored on Google Drive or Apple’s iCloud with end-to-end encryption. This encryption will provide moreprivacyandsecurity, but it’s not enabled by default. Here’s how to turn the feature on: Zuckerberg said that neither WhatsApp nor your backup service provider will be able to read your backups....

WhatsApp Pay isone of the few revenue streams for the popular chat app, as it doesn’t serve any ads. And to make more peopleuse this payment service, the company might be offer cashback rewards. According to a report byWABetaInfo, WhatsApp is working on a cashback feature in a beta version of its Android app. Last November, the company launchedWhatsApp Pay in India, after running it in the test mode for two years, due to regulatory hurdles....

WhatsApp is one of the most used chat apps across the world with more than 2 billion monthly active users, and Facebook owns it. Till now, the social network hasn’t pushed too many ‘Facebook’ features on this app. But that’s changing with a new feature company’s testing: business directory. The firm is testing this ‘Yellow pages’ like feature beginning in Sao Paulo, Brazil. WhatsApp’s head, Will Cathcart, announced this feature and said “we’ve built this in a private way....

Last year, WhatsApp rolled out a feature that lets yousend disappearing messages. The kicker was that those messages hovered around for seven days before vanishing — and it’s far too long Thankfully, we might getter better options soon. According toWABetaInfo, the chat app is working on a 24-hour option for ephemeral messages. However, this feature is under development, so we won’t be able to try it out just yet. This is a good step....