Today while I was on a video call with family using WhatsApp I noticed video effects when I used one of the signs. Then when I dug deeper to check i realised that it was a feature from iOS. If WhatsApp was end to end encrypted how are apple able to do this?
Link to the feature: https://support.apple.com/en-ca/guide/iphone/iphaa0b5671d/ios
End-to-end encryption just means that the data is encrypted when it is transmitted over the internet. The camera uses on-device processing to add live effects to the camera, which is then encrypted and sent through WhatsApp.
Allegedly encrypted.
They don’t care if it’s encrypted or not; they have the decryption keys and data on their servers