WhatsApp To Let Users Verify Accounts Via Emails, For Better Security

In a bid to help users protect their accounts from hackers, WhatsApp is working to introduce the ability to verify their accounts with email IDs.

Once rolled out, the Meta-owned platform would ask for the user’s email address to protect and verify their account.

Source : Getty

In a bid to help users protect their accounts from hackers, WhatsApp is working to introduce the ability to verify their accounts with email IDs. Meta-owned WhatsApp, the world's most popular messaging platform working on email verification to let users increase their account security, says WhatsApp beta tracker WABetaInfo. This feature would come in handy when there are incidents of device theft or if the user loses access to the linked phone number.

This would be an optional feature and not the one that asks for the email address when configuring the two-step verification. The feature is currently being tested in beta for Android. A new security feature to protect your account using an email address is under development and it will be released in a future update of the app. As always, we plan to publish an additional article when we have further details about this feature to share with you, WABetaInfo wrote on its web page.

Once rolled out, the Meta-owned platform would ask for the user’s email address to protect and verify their account. The particular circumstances under which the email address will be helpful to improve the security of the WhatsApp accounts are unknown at this time as the feature is currently under development.

WhatsApp has recently unveiled a new feature that allows users to share personal videos directly within their chats. This feature is an extension of its voice message functionality. WhatsApp noted that video messages will enable real-time responses in a visual format, allowing users to convey their thoughts and emotions within 60 seconds. The Meta-owned platform believes that this will add a fun and expressive element to communication, facilitating the sharing of special moments, birthday wishes, laughter at jokes and the announcement of good news.