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I think you’re thinking of iMessage. WhatsApp backups are encrypted: https://faq.whatsapp.com/1192377921246090/?locale=en_US&refs...

I don’t know if there’s proof, but I have a friend that works on the team that I trust. I’ve also seen the tools for analyzing the metadata for police warrants and they only deal with metadata (because content is encrypted).



You are right. Year ago was release with WhatsApp backup encrypted.

https://www.macrumors.com/how-to/end-to-end-encrypt-whatsapp...




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