It wasn’t clear to me what that sentence meant. My best guess was that maybe WhatsApp needs to do background work to decrypt messages for notifications. Before

It wasn’t clear to me what that sentence meant. My best guess was that maybe WhatsApp needs to do background work to decrypt messages for notifications. Before you’ve unlocked a phone (to allow WhatsApp to access its keys), notifications just show up as “you got an encrypted message” and can’t show what the message is. Perhaps that would happen to all messages after this change. But then again it seems that apple would want to ensure that there’s still a good way to do end-to-end encryption, so I would guess there would be a workaround.