Mumbai: Mark Zuckerberg announced a new WhatsApp feature called Chat Lock. This feature lets people protect their most intimate conversations with a password, secures them in a separate folder, and when someone messages them and they have that chat locked, the sender’s name and the content of the message will also be hidden.
You can see Mark’s announcement here.
The passion is to find new ways to help keep the people's messages private and secure. WhatsApp is excited to bring the viewers a new feature called Chat Lock, which lets them protect their most intimate conversations behind one more layer of security.
Locking a chat takes that thread out of the inbox and puts it behind its own folder that can only be accessed with device, password or biometric, like a fingerprint. It also automatically hides the contents of that chat in notifications too.
WhatsApp thinks this feature will be great 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 their phone at the exact moment an extra special chat arrives. They 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.
Over the next few months, WhatsApp is going to be adding more options for Chat Lock, including locking for companion devices, creating a custom password for the chats so that people can use a unique password different from their phone’s.
