


This means that to access their WhatsApp chats on either of these platforms, the users would have to authenticate the linking with the help of their biometrics.

In an announcement on Thursday, the Facebook-owned platform announced that the platform is beginning the roll out of the security feature that would need users to use face or fingerprint ID on their smartphones when trying to link their device with WhatsApp on the Web or on the desktop app. WhatsApp for Desktop and Web: Instant messaging app WhatsApp has decided to make logging in on WhatsApp Web and WhatsApp’s Desktop’s app more secure by leveraging the biometric security in smartphones. The options to log out from Web or Desktop portal would remain unchanged.
