If your mobile phone or SIM gets into the hands of someone else, that person can easily create a WhatsApp account for your SIM.
We all know that by now the service providers have started recycling their mobile numbers. So if you haven't used your sim for a while, apart from disconnecting the connection, there is an opportunity to sell it to someone else.
In this way or in any other way, if your Sim card goes to someone else, the concerned person can easily create a WhatsApp account on your number and download things like your chat backups.
So, as an answer to this question, WhatsApp company has included a facility called two-step verification in WhatsApp, but many people are not exactly aware of this.
By connecting a pin number and an email address to your WhatsApp account, if you connect to WhatsApp again on a different phone, you will have the opportunity to restore your WhatsApp account using this pin or the relevant email address.
So that means that even if someone else gets your Sim card if they don't have access to this Pin or email address, they won't get the opportunity to create a WhatsApp account for the corresponding number.
How to enable this two-step verification?
First, when you go to Settings > Account > Two-step verification in WhatsApp, you can see an enable button at the bottom of the screen.
When you tap on that button, you will be asked for a 6-number pin. After we give a pin of our choice and confirm it, they ask for our email address. This service will be activated after confirming with an email address that we currently use.
Something to remember is that, although entering the email address in the above steps is optional, if you suddenly forget this pin, the only way to recover your WhatsApp account is to send a request link through this email address.
So WhatsApp company points out that entering this email address is very important.
Also, if you have used this two-step verification facility, if you register for WhatsApp on the same number on another phone within 07 days from the day you last used WhatsApp, you will definitely need this Pin.
Also, after these 7 days, if someone gets this sim card and tries to log in to WhatsApp without your PIN, the WhatsApp company will delete those messages so that they will not get a backup of your messages.
In this way, after 30 days have passed since the last time you used WhatsApp if you register to WhatsApp without your PIN, the relevant WhatsApp account will be deleted and they will create a new WhatsApp account.
We don't need to worry about forgetting this pin. Because when we open the WhatsApp account once a week, we need that pin. In this way, when the pin is used frequently, the pin is often remembered.
If we forget this pin, we can disable the two-step verification by sending an email to the previously provided email address and using the link in that email.
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