WhatsApp is add together the power to interlock sure conversations to keep them from prying eyes .
In a blog post declare the Chat Lock feature of speech , the Meta - have company order users will be able to add an extra layer of security system to more intimate chat . Once you lock the thread you will keep that conversation in a disjoined folder , out of the inbox .
The Locked Chats folder can only be accessed via biometrics or a equipment countersign . If a apprisal is receive from a locked Old World chat , the content wo n’t look in the preview .
The feature of speech will be ideal if several the great unwashed use the same machine regularly , or you just go on to have prise middle around you who wish to dig into your chats when you hand them the telephone to take a pic .
“ We think this feature will be great for people who have reason to divvy up their phones from time to time with a family extremity or those moments where someone else is holding your phone at the exact moment an extra particular chat arrives , ” theblog postreads .
“ you may lock a chat by tapping the name of a one - to - one or group and select the lock option . To uncover these chats , slowly extract down on your inbox and enter your phone password or biometric . ”
Meta says more options will the added in the next few month , which will include engage your chats within fellow traveler devices as well as adding custom passwords .
From the television WhatsApp has posted demonstrate the lineament in activeness , Chat Lock will appear within the individual options of a chat , and will ask you to sustain the whorl within a fingermark or a parole .
The feature is wrap out now . you could see the pitch in the picture below :
