WhatsApp Will Add Fingerprint Security Features For Web Version

JAKARTA - The WhatsApp chat application plans to add physical security features to the desktop and Web versions. One of them is by presenting a fingerprint authentication feature.

Quoting from the Android Authority page, Thursday, September 17, the instant messaging service owned by Facebook is working on a fingerprint authentication feature for the Web version of WhatsApp. So that it allows laptop users who have a fingerprint scanner feature to enter and open WhatsApp.

Based on WABetainfo's search, this security feature was first discovered from the WhatsApp beta version of the 2.20200.10 update patch. It is not yet known when WhatsApp will roll out a global software update.

Even so, the presence of this feature is quite important, considering that many WhatsApp Web users are not completely safe when using a laptop, desktop PC or Mac. The operation of this authentication feature will be the same as the fingerprint scanner function on the mobile version of the WhatsApp application

Because so far, to enter the WhatsApp web and desktop application, users are required to scan the QR Code that appears. Moreover, this feature is still in the early development stage.

So it is not clear whether this fingerprint login option will replace the QR Code scanner function on WhatsApp Web. Including WhatsApp's plan to add Face Unlock security features on its platform.