Feature to protect chat backup with password may soon come in WhatsApp

WhatsApp is considered a very secure messaging platform. The reason is end-to-end encryption system. But, now this messaging platform of Facebook has decided to increase its security further. In future, WhatsApp users will be able to protect chat backups with a password. In this latest beta update of WhatsApp, an option called ‘Password Protect Backups’ is available, which will provide another level of security to the chat backups of the users. However, this feature is in the development stage. In technical language, it is in alpha stage. This latest beta build may not work as expected for users who installed the update.

WABetaInfo’s Android-2-20-66-whats-new/” target=”_blank” rel=”nofollow”>Report According to, a new option has been introduced in the latest beta WhatsApp (v2.20.66) named ‘Password Protect Backups’, it is disabled by default. No information related to this new security feature has been found in the screenshots revealed. But it seems to be necessary that if users forget the password of the backup history while installing WhatsApp on another device, they will not be able to restore their chat backup. For your information, let us tell you that WhatsApp Android users can store their chat history in Google Drive.

According to the report, the ‘Password protect backups’ feature is in alpha stage, which may not work as expected. We were also successful in downloading this latest beta update number of WhatsApp v2.20.67 from Play Store. But we did not encounter this security feature.

Earlier, WhatsApp Android Beta had received a new update. Which brings additional ‘solid color’ options for the dark theme. Users can use these solid colored backgrounds to replace the light background of their instant messaging apps.