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WhatsApp has added a new layer of privacy for its users, ensuring that their profile picture is not misused by taking screenshots. WhatsApp has already blocked people from taking screenshots of One-View photos or videos, and now the same feature is being enabled on the messaging app for your photos as well.

Taking a screenshot is a serious invasion of one's privacy and in most cases you don't even know when someone is doing this with your picture. But if this happens with your profile picture on WhatsApp, the platform will not give you any warning about the action, but make sure that the resulting screenshot of the picture is blank and they only see a black screen in front of them.

A few people have noticed that the new feature hasn't rolled out to everyone yet but we expect it to in the next few days or even weeks. As we noted with the latest WhatsApp Android beta version 2.24.4.25, the messaging app notifies the owner with a message that says, "Unable to take screenshot due to application restrictions."

We can independently test this tool and it works. With that said, we noticed that you can take a screenshot of the profile picture when you click on a contact from the chat window. WhatsApp doesn't give people the option to change the settings of this privacy feature so that you don't disable it, which is never an ideal thing for one's privacy. Facebook also has a similar tool called Profile Picture Guard that prevents other people from taking a screenshot of a photo.

The fact that Screenshot Tool Blocker is now available to a wide user base suggests that an official release is not far off. We are not sure if and when iPhone users can expect this feature for their profile. Having this feature will give WhatsApp a huge advantage over its rivals like Signal and Telegram, which do not have this tool.