Android

For most of us, our WhatsApp chat history is a digital diary. That’s why WhatsApp’s backup feature is so crucial. In a major step for privacy, WhatsApp introduced end-to-end encrypted (E2EE) backups, a system designed to protect user data even from cloud providers and from WhatsApp itself. However, a subtle design flaw in the Android reinstallation process can lead you to accidentally make your own highly-secure backups permanently inaccessible. If you are reinstalling WhatsApp on an Android phone, you need to be extremely careful at the permission-request stage. A single wrong tap can cost you your entire chat history. ...