WhatsApp allows you to share your status on Instagram and Facebook.

Meta says the link won’t turn on automatically, so it’s up to you to decide if you like linking WhatsApp to your account center. If you do so, Meta will start using your WhatsApp information “to do things like deliver, personalize and improve our products and services, including to show you ads,” according to its help page about the change.

Meta’s other apps will not use WhatsApp personal data “except to determine how many people we serve, to keep people safe, or to provide optional features that work across Meta products,” the company said. Yes. They also say linking your accounts doesn’t change the fact that your messages are end-to-end encrypted on WhatsApp.

Meta said it will add the ability for users to go to the Accounts Center to manage things like Meta AI stickers or AI-generated avatars created using the Imagine Me feature.