WhatsApp has changed its policies in recent years, allowing you to limit what apps can access your private messages. Before these changes took effect, WhatsApp was considered an extremely vulnerable platform. Despite encryption, Messages were vulnerable to hackers. Now, users can restrict who can access their messages and media downloads. Fortunately, WhatsApp has also made the process of deleting a message more difficult than ever. Follow these tips to prevent a hacker from viewing your private messages on WhatsApp.

Messages are encrypted before they are decrypted

End-to-end encryption prevents data from being secretly read or altered. A message is encrypted before it is sent and is not decrypted until the recipient retrieves it. The encryption process is called end-to-en…