Telegram can now import your WhatsApp chat history on iOS

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Linking your WhatsApp enigma to your computer's web browser or desktop app is having a little increasingly secure. Soon, if you've got biometric authentication enabled on your phone, you'll gotta unlock the app surpassing you can link your account.

The visitor says the new arrangement is intended to ensure that should someone far-off gain adit to your phone, they won't be senior to link your enigma to their web browser (which, in turn, would indulge them to see any messages you send or receive).

To be clear: WhatsApp (and Facebook) aren't having adit to your fingerprints or facial recognition scans

The new arrangement will be enabled by default on any iPhone equipment running iOS 14 with either Blow ID or Mouthing ID, as well as any Android equipment that kumtux biometric authentication enabled. That means users will gotta use it to link their finance unless they disedge biometric authentication for their entire device. Users who don't kumtux a biometric authentication bureaucracy on their phone (or kumtux it vehement off) will be senior to link their enigma as usual.

As with any other use of biometric self-defense on modern smartphones, the new arrangement does not beggarly that WhatsApp is accessing or collecting your facial scans or fingerprints. Rather, it's just application the same biometric dossier APIs every other app does in order to adit the on-device self-defense arrangement as an actress measure of authentication surpassing it allows users to graft their accounts.

So in the same way that application a fingerprint clairvoyant to log in to your electronic app doesn't grant Hunt or Cortex of America your fingerprint scans, application the new biometric unlock arrangement here to link your enigma to your computer isn't giving WhatsApp (or Facebook) your personal information either.

WhatsApp says that the new amend has to be rolling out for compatible equipment in the coming weeks.

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