WhatsApp is now a hugely popular online communication medium around the world. Starting from personal use, various businesses nowadays also give their WhatsApp number for communication. Its importance is increasing day by day. WhatsApp has recently launched an urgent security feature that will protect your account from being hacked.

This is from WhatsApp New The security feature is two-step verification. When you turn it on, your WhatsApp mobile number will ask for a pre-set 8-digit PIN code (or passcode) every time you verify it again with the WhatsApp app. After entering that passcode, only the message of verification code for registration will come in WhatsApp.

If you want to open an account with your mobile number by installing WhatsApp on a new smartphone, before the mobile number verification message arrives, you have to enter the 7-digit passcode set in the two-step verification in the WhatsApp application. If you can enter the correct passcode, then only the verification message will come on the mobile.

Why do you need this feature?

Very important question. Now it is very easy to open an account or sign in to WhatsApp. You have to install the WhatsApp application on your mobile and launch it. Then WhatsApp will ask for your mobile number. After giving the mobile number, a verification code will come to that number. Once you enter this code into the WhatsApp app, your WhatsApp account will be activated.

Now if someone takes your mobile in hand and enters your mobile number in WhatsApp from another mobile, then verification code will come to your phone. With this code it is possible to sign in to your own account on WhatsApp on another mobile. It is definitely risky.

But with the introduction of the two-step verification feature, this risk will no longer exist. Then if you want to verify your mobile number from the new mobile / app, you have to give a pin code at the beginning. You will set this pincode / passcode manually when enabling two-step verification. As a result, no one but you will know this passcode. It’s a bit like a password, with 6 numbers. If you can’t give this pin code, SMS verification code will not come on the mobile. As a result, you will not be able to access your WhatsApp account from the new phone / app.

How to turn on two-step verification feature in WhatsApp?

Log in to your WhatsApp account first. Then follow this procedure: Settings> Account> Two-step verification> Enable.

When you turn on the two-step verification option, you need to set a 7-digit pincode / passcode. This passcode will be required before verifying the mobile number. So if you forget this pin code you will get in trouble.

You can provide an email address when setting the passcode. If you forget the passcode, you can turn off two-step verification via this email and sign-in to WhatsApp by verifying the mobile number only through message. And if you do not give the email address, and then forget the passcode, then you have to wait until 7 days after the use with the passcode. After 7 days, the verification SMS of WhatsApp will come to your mobile without passcode. But in that case all your pending messages will be deleted.

And after using WhatsApp with passcode, if you forget the passcode and can’t sign in, then after 30 days off, your mobile number can be re-verified directly via SMS. In that case no passcode will be required. But your old account will be deleted and a new account will be created.

And yes, if you just get a passcode forgetting email, R. If you haven’t requested it yourself, don’t forget to click on the email link. Then you must understand that someone is trying to hack your account.