WhatsApp add Chat Lock, for when these 'additional particular' messages arrive

WhatsApp is including the power to lock sure conversations to maintain them from prying eyes.

In a weblog publish saying the Chat Lock characteristic, the Meta-owned firm says customers will be capable to add an additional layer of safety to extra intimate chats. When you lock the thread you’ll hold that dialog in a separate folder, out of the inbox.

The Locked Chats folder can solely be accessed by way of biometrics or a tool password. If a notification is acquired from a locked chat, the contents gained’t seem within the preview.

The characteristic will probably be best if a number of folks use the identical system usually, otherwise you simply occur to have prying eyes round you who wish to dig into your chats if you hand them the cellphone to take a photograph.

“We expect this characteristic will probably be nice for individuals who have motive to share their telephones every so often with a member of the family or these moments the place another person is holding your cellphone on the precise second an additional particular chat arrives,” the weblog publish reads.

“You possibly can lock a chat by tapping the identify of a one-to-one or group and deciding on the lock choice. To disclose these chats, slowly pull down in your inbox and enter your cellphone password or biometric.”

Meta says extra choices will the added within the subsequent few months, which is able to embrace locking your chats inside companion units in addition to including customized passwords.

From the video WhatsApp has posted exhibiting the characteristic in motion, Chat Lock will seem inside the particular person settings of a chat, and can ask you to verify the lock inside a fingerprint or a password.

The characteristic is rolling out now. You possibly can see the pitch within the video under: