WhatsApp launches Chat Lock feature to protect private conversations, check details

WhatsApp has launched a much useful feature that will allow users to protect their most intimate conversations with a password and secures them in a separate folder. Meta Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the Chat Lock feature to safeguard intimate chats.

"New locked chats in WhatsApp make your conversations more private. They`re hidden in a password-protected folder and notifications won`t show sender or message content," said Zuckerberg.

The new feature lets users put a conversation in a folder that can only be accessed with the device’s password or biometric, like a fingerprint. If you lock a chat then it will automatically hides the details of the conversation in notifications.

 "It also automatically hides the contents of that chat in notifications, too," said the company. The feature will be important for people who have reason to share their phones from time to time with a family member or those moments where someone else is holding your phone at the exact moment an extra special chat arrives.

"You can lock a chat by tapping the name of a one-to-one or group and selecting the lock option. To reveal these chats, slowly pull down on your inbox and enter your phone password or biometric," said WhatsApp.

Over the next few months, the company will add more options for Chat Lock, including locking for companion devices and "creating a custom password for your chats so that you can use a unique password different from the one you use for your phone".

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