WhatsApp: a new function to hide your private conversations

WhatsApp, Meta’s messaging service, benefits from regular updates that expand its catalog of features and enrich the user experience. Recently, a multi-device mode was rolled out, along with a bunch of new optimizations. A new feature will therefore be deployed, bringing the possibility for the user to lock his most intimate discussions!

Keep your conversations truly private

As detailed by whatsapp, the purpose of this feature is to keep the most total secrecy around a conversation. Once the lock of a conversation is activated, the messages concerned are moved to a specific folder, accessible only via the phone’s password or its biometric fingerprint. Chat notifications are also automatically hidden.

WhatsApp’s new Chat Lock feature hides your most private messages so only you can see themhttps://t.co/4h18r96kbL

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Another important element, the conversation does not appear anywhere on your phone except the dedicated folder. The media will then not automatically download to your gallery. It’s a detail, but it helps protect your privacy from this very intrusive detail at WhatsApp.

WhatsApp wants to strengthen this feature

Messaging teams have understood this well, keeping a WhatsApp conversation secret and hidden will strike a chord with many users. So, as indicated in the press release, the functionality will be reinforced in the coming months.

New options for locking conversations are thus provided in the block of updates. The user will thus be able, in the near future, to lock the discussion for all the connected devices, but also to create unique passwords for each conversation.

We therefore know more about this mysterious privacy feature mentioned by WhatsApp a few weeks ago. A tool that will undoubtedly quickly become more popular for those who want to keep all the privacy of their private conversations on messaging.