WhatsApp Adds Feature to Protect IP Address in Calls for Enhanced Privacy: How to Turn It On
Concerned about your digital trail while making calls on WhatsApp? Well, these guys just pulled off a stealthy one with IP masking! Through this, you can conceal your location by routing calls through WhatsApp’s servers rather than having your IP go out directly. So thinking about it, this way is a whole lot like agent-worthy moves for your chats! The feature is at your discretion, for those who value their privacy, and comes with an extra layer of protection with every connection. Click to activate and poof!
The newest privacy feature on WhatsApp: hiding your IP while calling. The Meta engineers spilled the beans and disclosed on their blog that the new “Protect IP address in calls” option reroutes your connection. Forget direct lines the usual, local peer-to-peer method by which callers see one another’s IP is undergoing a security upgrade. It is essentially an IP cloak for location privacy and more anonymity during calls.
Relay servers will hide call participants’ IP addresses Photo Credit: Meta
An IP address exchange is the machinery driving a peer-to-peer call. But the digital handshake reveals more than just connectivity. Nowadays, an IP address acts somewhat like a trail of breadcrumbs, supplying clues about the general area of the user or the name of the operator. Giving strangers that kind of information in a call? Some may want to keep those details to themselves.
In case your computer address pops up during WhatsApp calls, you should be worried. Now the WhatsApp acts as a mysterious secret agent routing all the calls via its own servers; this ingeniously conceals your IP address from you, which is a positive for your privacy.
Trade-off? An almost invisible level of call quality. Consider it a little stealth detour. But don’t worry! WhatsApp guarantees that conversations will stay end-to-end encrypted after that server hop, so only you and the person on the other end of the chat can hear the conversation. So anything from your call to your IP address is now under heavy protection.
Are you troubled about your IP revealing itself when you make a call? Good news! A new cloak of invisibility is making its way into your messaging platform. This feature masks your IP, giving you just that extra bit of discretion which might be crucial for the security-conscious end-users. The other good thing is that it’s accessible to all on iOS and Android. Would you like to appear incognito? Follow these simple few steps to activate IP protection on your smartphone.
How to enable the ‘Protect IP address in calls’ feature on WhatsApp
- Download the latest version of WhatsApp via the App Store or Google Play store.
- Open the WhatsApp settings menu and tapPrivacy.
- Scroll down and tapAdvanced.
- Tap theProtect IP address in callsswitch to enable the new privacy feature.
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