Is Facebook-owned Instagram testing this new, important feature that will work through WhatsApp to ensure greater SECURITY? Know details

Social media platform Instagram is testing a feature that will allow users to receive two-factor verification codes through WhatsApp messenger or WhatsApp business as the latest option, a report published by Digital Information World said. This Facebook-owned platform has stated that it will not be a mandatory feature that will bind the users to use WhatsApp for verification codes, this report further said. 

If users have privacy issue and they do not feel safe to receive 2FA (two-factor authentication) codes through WhatsApp, they are allowed to use app authentication to generate 2FA codes, it further said. 

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This report quoted app researcher and reverse engineer named Alessandro Paluzzi who tweeted screenshots of the feature and said that it is still in the development stage but it will be launched soon both on Android and iOS. 

“#Instagram is working on the possibility of receiving authentication codes (2FA) on #WhatsApp,” the tweet said. “It should be obvious, but it's better to specify: users will NOT be forced to activate this setting, it will be completely optional,” the tweet further said.   

Instagram currently uses multiple options to send verification codes to its users like text messages, authenticator apps, and now it is time for WhatsApp to join these options. 

The screenshots posted by Paluzzi have shown that there will be a toggle option to turn on the verification codes on the WhatsApp number, however, if users want to turn on this option, they will have to enable the text message option before.  

For those users, who want to know that how they can turn this option on, they can turn this option on by going to Instagram settings, then security, and they will find the option of 2FA, they can switch on the WhatsApp option and if they do not feel comfortable using this option, they can even turn this option off. 

2FA increases the security of your account and it is very important because hackers use different techniques to get access to your account and in 2FA, you give two types of info such as a secret password or you enter a login code that you receive on your device for one time, this report said. 

Instagram is one of the biggest social network with over a billion users across the world, this report said.  

In another tweet recently made by Paluzzi, the mobile app developer said that “The #Instagram has officially announced the ability to see insights for Live videos Partying face.”.  

It is working on varieties of features for the convenience of its users as a few weeks ago, it was working on a feature to upload photos or videos through a web browser just like people upload on Facebook through a desktop device, the Digital Information World report said.