WhatsApp has once again been spotted to be developing a new security feature that will help user protect their account. This was made known by WABetaInfo which discovered this in the WhatsApp beta for Android 2.23.16.15 update from the Google Play Store.
In a future update, the instant-messaging platform will ask you for your email address in order to protect and verify your account. If the Meta-owned messaging platform should release this, it will add to the already existing two-factor authentication method for securing user’s account.
As you can see in the above screenshot provided by WABetaInfo, WhatsApp will soon prompt you to enter your email address as an extra layer of security of users’ WhatsApp accounts.
WABetaInfo didn’t say if WhatsApp will send an email verification link to your inbox, after tapping “Next”. Although it noted that this is a developing feature, and that “there is no available information about the specific situations in which the email address will be useful to enhance the security of our WhatsApp accounts.”
WhatsApp keeps working on additional features to help users better secure their accounts. The most recent was the addition of Account Protect in April.
The instant-messaging service announced in a blog post that users will now have to verify if indeed they initiated a call to switch their WhatsApp account to a new device. The purpose, according to Whatsapp, is “to double check that it’s really you.”
“From now on, we may ask you on your old device to verify that you want to take this step as an extra security check. This feature can help alert you to an unauthorized attempt to move your account to another device,” the company noted.
