The “End-
to-End” signifies that the conversation is
protected prior to it leaving your cell phone, and
is only readable after it reaches your partner’s
phone. As a result, no other person, including the
company, will be able to read your messages.
While critics who wanted WhatsApp to be
encrypted are pleased with this new development,
the same cannot be said for government agencies
– although, the funny thing is, the United States
government helped finance the encoding system
WhatsApp employs, which will undoubtedly raise
a fair amount of suspicion.
However, with that being said, before you start
sending content on WhatsApp, keep in mind that
while your messages are still in transit, they can
still be hijacked by hackers. While the other
possibility is that someone can create a backdoor
into your system, which will allow them to snoop
on your conversation(s). For that reason,
encryption itself is not much help if you do not
follow the advice we are about to tell you.
If you truly need the information you sent in
WhatsApp to be secure, then get rid of it
immediately after you have read it. If a person
gets their hands on your cellphone – for instance,
by stealing it – and knows how to gain access to
your cell phone—just as the Federal Bureau of
Investigation has done so with the iPhone that
was utilized by the shooter in San Bernardino—-
every little thing that is on your cell phone will be
available to that person.
Furthermore, a few texting or messaging
applications, particularly Telegram, include a self-
destruct function, which erases the content from
the cell phone. You can set a time period for the
expiration, and Telegram will delete your
messages when the time comes. However, at this
time, WhatsApp does not have an automatic
message deleting feature.
It should also be brought to light that Telegram
does not use end-to-end encryption as a set
default standard. As a result, if you want
encrypted messages, then you are required to
select it manually. It is also worth mentioning
that WhatsApp, like most of the encrypted
messaging systems, does not save your
communications on their server machines.
However, on an Apple iPhone, consumers are able
to tell WhatsApp to maintain a back-up of
communications on Apple’s online storage service
– which is commonly known as iCloud. As soon
as this data is uploaded to the cloud, it can be
checked by a government agency or even by
hackers who know their way in.
In comparison, Signal is definitely the application
that is favored by privacy enthusiasts – plus their
encoding system is similar to what WhatsApp
uses. Signal does not save your information or
the communication content to the cloud. And it is
needless to say, in case you think about taking
screenshots of your messages before removing
them from the application, if your phone
automatically saves your photos to Google’s
servers, Apple servers or any other cloud services,
then these can also be hacked.
Once more, your conversations can never truly be
safe if someone can see your screen; however, if
that bothers you, there are many visual protection
apps on the market. These apps will allow you to
view your screen as normal, however, the people
around you will be unable to see what is on your
screen. But if you trust the people around you,
and the only protection you want is from the
government agencies or hackers, then simply
delete every message once it’s read, and do not
take screenshots of your phone.
In addition, for added protection, try not to use
public WiFi. If this is unavoidable, then use a paid
VPN that offers encryption services. We know this
is a lot of work, but it is always better to take
steps to enhance your security. Enjoy your new
end-to-end encrypted WhatsApp messaging.

source: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/04/whatsapp-rolls-out-end-end-encryption-its-1bn-users

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Been seeing this on iphone for over or so now. Its a nice development tho!

Been seeing this on iphone for over a week now or so. Its a nice development tho!

mrbillz:
Been seeing this on iphone for over a week now or so. Its a nice development tho!

ya.. It was rolled close to 2 weeks ago

zzzzy:
ya.. It was rolled close to 2 weeks ago

you're right! Noticed it about 2 weeks ago, but didnt pay more attention to it. Not until i saw your well detailed post. Nice job bro

mrbillz:
you're right! Noticed it about 2 weeks ago, but didnt pay more attention to it. Not until i saw your well detailed post. Nice job bro

lol i wasn't the one who wrote the post.. Check the names. it's Atheistan.

zzzzy:
lol i wasn't the one who wrote the post.. Check the names. it's Atheistan.

you brought it to my notice. So I gave you and the writer the kudos