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The New Revamped WhatsApp Status is End-to-End Encrypted

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WhatsApp status has become another competitor to Snapchat Stories, allowing the use of pictures and videos to update users’ statuses on the service. It follows the huge success of Instagram Stories.
Facebook owned WhatsApp has announced in a blog post today the roll out of its revamped status feature. Starting today, users on all supported platforms will receive the new feature, which allows the use of pictures and videos as status updates in a similar way to Snapchat Stories.
WhatsApp was first conceived in February 2009 as “an application that lets your friends and other contacts know what you’re up to”, focused only on its status feature and without messaging capabilities.
But the service has evolved far beyond that and to celebrate its eighth anniversary on February 24, the company has decided to revamp that first feature by allowing the use of pictures and videos on it.

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