How to (de)activate two-factor authentication on WhatsApp

The protection of your personal data is becoming increasingly important. Therefore, it is essential that you seize all available options. An example of this is WhatsApp Two-Factor Authentication (2FA). In “How to” we show you how to (de)activate them.

Please be honest: How often is your smartphone left unattended on your desk, in the office or on the sofa at home? Certainly a few times a day. After all, it is also a bit of a relief not to have your mobile device with you everywhere.

But even if you trust your family and colleagues, you can never be sure – at least in the office or in public spaces – that a stranger or malicious person will not access your smartphone.

Activate (de)activate WhatsApp two-factor authentication: Here’s how

Especially if your smartphone is not protected or only poorly protected with a simple code, your personal data, photos and videos are open to the intruder. Messengers like WhatsApp are particularly critical because they are a haven of highly sensitive data.

It therefore makes sense to protect this data separately. For this reason, in today’s “how to” we explain how you can activate and deactivate WhatsApp two-factor authentication (2FA for short).

So activate you WhatsApp two-factor authentication

In the first step you open WhatsApp for that (for iOS and Android) on your smartphone.

Use the arrows under the heading to go back and forth.