In just a few years, voice messages have become extremely popular on messaging services. Their main advantage is that they allow you to respond quickly, without having to enter text on a keyboard. But this format also has a big disadvantage when it comes to confidentiality. Indeed, voice messages can be transferred, recorded, and are therefore not suitable for certain sensitive discussions.
But the good news is that WhatsApp is launching one-time voice messages to improve privacy. In essence, when this feature is enabled, the audio message automatically disappears after being listened to by the recipient. While this feature does not 100% prevent recordings of audio messages (for example, audio can still be recorded with another smartphone or video screenshot), it greatly limits the chances of this happening. And besides, this is a feature that WhatsApp already offers for other types of media (photo and video).
How to send an ephemeral audio message?
In any case, if you want to send an audio message that disappears immediately after being listened to by its recipient, you just need to:
- Open the chat or group chat in which you want to send the message
- Tap the microphone icon (for audio messages) and swipe up to enable hands-free recording
- On the voicemail interface, you must tap the semi-circle with a “1” inside to activate single listening
So you can now send VN on WhatsApp as view once???
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- This semi-circle turns green to confirm that single listening is enabled
- All you have to do is speak, then send your audio message
“Whether it's reading your bank details out loud to send to a friend or planning a surprise, it's now possible to share sensitive information via voice messages with complete peace of mind.”, explains WhatsApp about this new feature.“To be consistent with single-view photos and videos, single-play voice messages will be clearly marked with the 'single view' icon and can only be listened to once.”But, once again, it should be remembered that this protection is not infallible.
WhatsApp continues to strengthen privacy
In any case, this year, WhatsApp has continued to strengthen the confidentiality of its messaging app. For example, it launched a directory in which the user can hide their sensitive chats, in case someone else is using their smartphone. The manufacturer also recently launched the“codes secrets”, an even more effective way to hide these sensitive discussions.
Otherwise, the Meta group is also improving privacy protection on Messenger. Indeed, like WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger now has an end-to-end encryption system by default.This encryption makes discussions unreadableduring the journey between the message author's device and the recipient's device. For this encryption to apply to Messenger, Meta engineers had to rebuild the app. And this is why the development of this novelty took years.
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