WhatsApp has a feature for those moments when you want to share something, but don't want it to stick around. Called "View Once," the feature lets you send a photo or a video to someone; after they've seen it, the content is gone forever.

A WHATSAPP bug allowing people to bypass the app’s ‘View Once’ feature has been fixed – but users will need to update their app. The loophole allowed users to access photos

Meta's WhatsApp is one of the safer messaging platform options currently available on the market. The platform offers end-to-end encryption, an option to set two-step verification, privacy settings for groups, view-once media, and more. The latter of the list, however, has previously proved to be a concern.

WhatsApp has fixed a major privacy bug in its "View Once" feature on iPhones, which allowed users to access disappearing photos and videos after viewing.

According to a report by the Android Police, WhatsApp has rolled out a fix for a view-once media bug that allowed recipients to access the limited-time media after the one-time viewing. The report claimed that the vulnerability was present in WhatsApp for iOS and was not found in Android versions.

As per reports, WhatsApp has released a fix for the bug that allowed iOS users to bypass the 'View Once' restriction and view disappearing media multiple times.

In August 2021, the end-to-end encryption messaging app, WhatsApp launched the 'View Once' function for images and videos, then in

WhatsApp has reportedly squashed a bug in the view once feature that enabled access to images even after they had been opened.