{"id":982657,"date":"2025-12-30T10:50:23","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T05:20:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=982657"},"modified":"2025-12-30T11:50:40","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T06:20:40","slug":"whatsapp-on-iphone-may-soon-show-which-apple-watch-is-connected-what-it-means-for-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/12\/30\/whatsapp-on-iphone-may-soon-show-which-apple-watch-is-connected-what-it-means-for-users\/","title":{"rendered":"WhatsApp on iPhone may soon show which Apple Watch is connected: What it means for users"},"content":{"rendered":"

Meta is testing a new transparency feature for WhatsApp on iPhone. This feature will explicitly display when an Apple Watch is paired to a user’s account, addressing potential security concerns introduced by the messaging app’s recent expansion to watchOS. The feature, spotted in WhatsApp beta build 25.37.10.71 on TestFlight by WABetaInfo, adds a new “Peripherals” section to the app’s “Linked Devices” interface. This enhancement comes in response to security risks where accounts could be secretly paired with a partner’s or unauthorised person’s Apple Watch. This feature can remove any particular concern in abusive relationships where technology is often used for surveillance and control.<\/p>\n

WhatsApp testing Peripherals section on iPhone: How it may work<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Meta is testing a new transparency feature for WhatsApp on iPhone. This feature will explicitly display when an Apple Watch is paired to a user’s account, addressing potential security concerns introduced by the messaging app’s recent expansion to watchOS. The feature, spotted in WhatsApp beta build 25.37.10.71 on TestFlight by WABetaInfo, adds a new “Peripherals” section to the app’s “Linked Devices” interface. This enhancement comes in response to security risks where accounts could be secretly paired with a partner’s or unauthorised person’s Apple Watch. This feature can remove any particular concern in abusive relationships where technology is often used for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,88,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-982657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-times-of-india","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=982657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982657\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=982657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=982657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=982657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}