WhatsApp To Soon Make Your Most Intimate Conversation Even More Private

Global social and communications platform, WhatsApp has announced a new feature that it says will “protect your most intimate conversations” by “making them more private.

Called Chat Lock, the feature on WhatsApp lets you put a conversation in a folder that can only be accessed with your device’s password or biometric, like a fingerprint. Locking a chat automatically hides the details of the conversation in notifications.

“Our passion is to find new ways to help keep your messages private and secure. Today, we’re announcing Chat Lock on WhatsApp, which lets you protect your most intimate conversations behind one more layer of security,” said Meta in a statement.

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According to WhatsApp, 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 your inbox and enter your password or biometric.

“Over the next few months, we’re going to be adding more options for Chat Lock, including locks for companion devices and creating a custom password for your chats so that you can use a unique password different from your phone’s,” added Meta.

“We believe this feature will be great for people who share their phones from time to time with a family member, or in moments where someone else is holding your phone at the exact moment an extra-special chat arrives.”

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Mark Zuckerberg, the founder, and CEO of Meta, said in a statement on Facebook: “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.”

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