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If you wish to make your chats a bit more private, you can try out the new WhatsApp Chat Lock feature. This will help you to keep those intimate chats private and only accessible to you alone. With this feature, you will be able to hand your smartphones with WhatsApp open to others and rest assured that they won’t access private chats.
This feature proves that WhatsApp is working on new ways to protect its users’ privacy. Now the Meta-owned social media app is adding an optional new layer of security for users to benefit from. Yes, this is an optional feature that you can activate for individual chats if necessary.
Accessing the chat you place under the new WhatsApp Chat Lock will require some biometric identification. This might be a fingerprint or facial unlock, depending on what you use to unlock your device. With this level of security, you can let others scroll through your WhatsApp without any fear that they’d access your intimate conversations.
Details regarding the new WhatsApp Chat Lock security feature
This feature is quite similar to the WhatsApp biometric lock security setting. With the biometric lock feature, you can lock the WhatsApp application on your smartphone. Accessing it will then require that you make use of the biometric security unlock on your smartphone.
Using the fingerprint or face unlock feature will help you unlock your app with the WhatsApp biometric lock feature. With the new WhatsApp Chat Lock feature, you can lock certain chats instead of locking the entire app. This will take a certain chat out of your inbox and place it in a secure file accessible via biometric unlock.
To make the unlocking process easy, the file will require you to use your smartphone unlock feature. This includes biometric unlocking and even passwords, PINs, and patterns. By doing this you won’t forget the password required to unlock the chats placed in the WhatsApp Chat Lock file. WhatsApp also plans to add a custom password to lock chats, so you won’t use your device’s password to unlock.
The WhatsApp Chat Lock file will be at the top of your chat list just like pinned and archived chats. All messages sent from a contact you use the WhatsApp Chat Lock feature with will not appear on the chat list. Instead, you’d need to unlock the chat lock folder to be able to access their chats and media.
You can find this feature will be available on the privacy settings page, just like the biometric lock feature. WhatsApp is currently rolling out this feature to devices globally, so you’d soon get this feature on your device. More improvements to the WhatsApp Chat Lock will also be made available to users in the coming months.