WhatsApp now permits you to disguise your locked chats behind a secret code

WhatsApp is introducing a brand new strategy to maintain your locked chats away from prying eyes. Instead of getting your locked chats folder seen with all of your different conversations, now you can disguise the chats behind a secret code of your selecting.

As proven within the under instance offered by Meta, you should use letters, numbers, particular characters, and even emoji in your secret code. All it’s important to do is sort that password into the WhatsApp search bar to search out your locked chats. This ought to hopefully maintain individuals from figuring out you will have a locked chat folder within the first place in case they sneak a peek at your cellphone.

WhatsApp additionally notes you may select to have your locked chats seem in your chat record as an alternative at any time. The Meta-owned messenger first launched locked chats in May, which let you lock conversations in a folder you may solely open utilizing your fingerprint, face scan, or password. In addition to the brand new secret code characteristic, WhatsApp says now you can lock a chat by long-pressing on the dialog as an alternative of going into the chat’s settings.

Meta is rolling out secret codes beginning as we speak, they usually’ll be accessible globally within the coming months.