WhatsApp new feature restricts users from taking screenshots of profile pictures

A new feature has come in WhatsApp which will now provide more security to the user's profile picture. This feature is currently available in beta version. Through which the user's profile picture will now become even more secure. Earlier, the Messenger app used to allow the user to keep the profile picture hidden from strangers. Now WhatsApp has given another security to the profile picture, in which even a screenshot of the user's profile picture can no longer be taken. Let us know how this new security feature will work.

WhatsApp had stopped the option to save or download user profile picture some time ago. Now the messaging app is going to take similar steps for screenshots as well. WABetaInfo's Android-2-24-4-25-whats-new/” rel=”nofollow” target=”_blank”>Report According to, WhatsApp has included the feature of stopping screenshot of profile picture in the beta version. This feature will be available for Android users now. After the introduction of the new feature, whenever you try to take a screenshot of a user's profile photo, the screen will turn black and a message will also appear that the screenshot cannot be taken due to app restrictions.

Through this feature, WhatsApp is preventing such users from capturing the profile picture who have not taken your permission, or who want to unofficially take a screenshot of a user's profile picture and share it. Access to this feature has just been given to a select group of beta testers. Soon it will be available to all users.

Talking about other updates, WhatsApp has introduced new formatting options for text. Through these the message can be presented in a better way. This will also help in saving time. Apart from this, communication will now be possible in a better way through messages. Messenger app has added these formatting options to the text named Bulleted Lists, Numbered Lists, Block Quotes and Inline Code. How these can be used, you can know in detail in this report.