In May of this year, many users shared screenshots of the privacy control panel, where it was seen that WhatsApp was accessing the microphone even when the user was not using their smartphone. WhatsApp later clarified that a bug had caused false privacy indicators and notifications. on the privacy dashboard and Meta had also made sure it was an Android related issue.
In a tweet from the Android Developers account, Google finally confirmed the issueOne ” Latest Android bug affecting a limited number of WhatsApp users and generating incorrect privacy indicators and notifications on the Android privacy dashboard “. Only a limited number of users are affected by this issue.
WhatsApp and Google have already fixed the problem
Google announced that it has jointly fixed the issue with WhatsApp and that affected users must download the latest version of the messaging app for the error to go away. ” We thank WhatsApp for its partnership and apologize for any confusion this error may have caused to users. » indicates the American company.
WhatsApp has drastically limited spam, especially by introducing a feature to automatically silence calls from unknown numbers. WhatsApp also plans to replace your phone number with an alias soon, but the feature is still reserved for the beta version of the app.
