WhatsApp Listening In While You Sleep?

This is indeed strange but there is a WhatsApp bug bringing an important revelation on an interesting problem to the surface.

It is now a top possibility that WhatsApp might be using your microphone in the background while you sleep. 

Both Google and WhatsApp have confirmed that they are aware of a bug that causes some Android devices to appear as though WhatsApp is gaining unneeded access to their microphones.

Users have tweeted about the problem, as how WhatsApp appears to be using their microphone while they are sleeping.

This issue first came to the fore a month ago. Twitter engineer, Foad Dabiri, posted an image that appeared to show that the microphone had been running continuously in the background while he was not using the app.

He shared a screenshot from Android's Privacy Dashboard, which shows how frequently apps use a device's camera and microphone. 

Whatsapp - Android Microphone Bug

Dabiri's tweet was retweeted by Musk, who wrote, "WhatsApp cannot be trusted."

The messaging app has already lost many users last few years due to some privacy and security concerns, yet the problems still continue now.

The messaging app tries to get back its users by offering more security features.

In an explanation shared on Twitter, WhatsApp recommended it was an Android-related issue, and said: "We accept this is a bug on Android that mis-credits data in their Protection Dashboard and have requested that Google research and remediate."