WhatsApp strengthens the security of photos configured to be viewed only once

WhatsApp will implement a new security measure to protect those images you send to be seen only once.

In order for this content to be protected from prying eyes, WhatsApp will only allow it to be viewed from mobile phones, excluding the web and desktop versions. We tell you what it is.

WhatsApp will have a new dynamic to protect single view messages

One of the options that WhatsApp offers us when we want to keep a private photo is “configure it to see it only once”. That is, once our contact sees the image in the viewer and closes it, it will disappear.

A practical dynamic, which avoids us having to configure the messages that disappear after a certain period of time. So far, this dynamic works both in the WhatsApp app and on the different platforms.

However, as mentioned in WABetaInfo, WhatsApp will remove the ability to open or send single view photo or video messages from both the web and desktop versions. That is, images and videos configured to be viewed once can only be viewed from the mobile.

It is not due to lack of compatibility, as we have seen that it works correctly, but it is rather a security issue. In the WhatsApp app it has taken measures so that the user cannot take screenshots of the image or video, but from the PC the content does not have this protection.

Also, there are several tricks that users apply to be able to see this content more than once from WhatsApp Web, bypassing the app restriction. And not to mention that not only could our recipient take a screenshot of the content, it would be easier for any curious person near the PC to see our open WhatsApp account.

When WhatsApp launches this update and we receive a single view photo from the web or desktop version, we will see a message informing us that we have received a single view message, but for security reasons it can only be viewed from a mobile device.