Crucially – and this is the bit to pay attention to – law enforcement agencies who turn up at its offices can’t either. End-to-end encryption helps make communication via Whats App private, sort of like a face-to-face conversation.” In addition to video calls, Whats App users now enjoy this security feature for messaging and phone calls too.

Naturally, Whats App and other companies busily integrating end-to-end encryption into their software emphasise privacy. An alternative explanation is that Whats App and other software makers are busily adding strong encryption to protect themselves as much as users.

And in this case, it didn’t require an app update – indicating a server-side change could enable it.

Anyone who uses Whats App Messenger who has been looking for a truly free native-style desktop app experience on their Mac has been hard-pressed to find a really good client that didn’t have hidden costs and worked extremely well in the same package.

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The pairing process is essentially the same as how we show you in our Whats App web app pairing tutorial, except that you’ll be launching a native app instead of visiting the Whats App web app in your web browser.

When you launch the Free Chat for Whats App desktop app, you’re given a QR Code that you need to scan on your i Phone to pair the two devices.

In this case, a new dialog box will appear, offering the choice between a standard voice call and a video call.

In addition, the call log will show which calls were made via video by annotating them with the camera icon, instead of the telephone icon.