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\nWhatsApp now lets you lock and hide individual chats<\/br>
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WhatsApp announced<\/a> today that it\u2019s introducing a new \u201cChat Lock\u201d feature that is designed to give users an additional layer of security for their most intimate conversations. As its name suggests, the feature lets you lock a chat, which takes that thread out of the inbox and puts it behind its own folder that can only be accessed with your device password or biometric, like a fingerprint.<\/p>\n

Once you lock a chat, the app will also automatically hide the contents of that chat in notifications. 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, you have to slowly pull down on your inbox and enter your phone password or biometric.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe think 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 your phone at the exact moment an extra special chat arrives,\u201d the company wrote in a blog post.<\/a><\/p>\n

The Meta-owned company says it plans to add more options for Chat Lock, including locking for companion devices and creating a custom password for your chats so that you can use a unique password different from the one you use for your phone.<\/p>\n

Although WhatsApp offers end-to-end encryption, that doesn\u2019t apply when someone has unlocked access to your phone and can see your messages. The new feature provides an extra layer of security in these instances.<\/p>\n

The new feature comes a few weeks after WhatsApp added a few new updates around polls and sharing<\/a> on its platform. As part of these updates, you now have the option to create single-vote polls, which means you can run a poll where people are only allowed to vote once. As for sharing, you can now forward media with captions.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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