Your highly confidential conversations can now become completely invisible with the latest major privacy change in the WhatsApp application. The popular messaging app has introduced a brand new tool that hides chats you don’t want anyone to know about by fully concealing them behind a secret code. Mark Zuckerberg just announced a secret code feature for Chat Lock.
The "Chat Lock" feature was revealed earlier this year, designed to help users keep their "most intimate conversations" safe from prying eyes by securing them with a password and saving them in a separate folder. Additionally, notifications from locked chats will not appear at inappropriate moments, such as when you hand your phone to a friend to look at some photos.
This feature relies on the existing chat lock that already allows people to set a password on specific conversations, but they remain visible in the chat list, which can be suspicious. Now, you can avoid suspicion by acting as if such sensitive texts do not exist. Locked chats will be completely hidden from view until users enter their secret code in the search bar, which will reveal all the conversations they don't want others to snoop on.
With the secret code, you can hide specific chats entirely from the list on WhatsApp, so neither you nor anyone else can see them. Better yet, the code can be entirely different from the one you use to unlock your phone, so no one who knows your iPhone or Android PIN can snoop on your secret WhatsApp conversations.
Once you set up your secret code, there won’t be a designated area to enter it. You will need to type it in the top search bar, and only then will the chats you wish to keep private become visible again.
**How to Hide Chats on WhatsApp**
If you want to hide a conversation using the new secret code feature, you will need to make sure your app is updated first. So, check the App Store or Google Play Store to see if there’s an update available for WhatsApp. This feature may not be available to everyone right away, so you’ll need to be a little patient if you notice it’s still unavailable. Once available, all you have to do is long-press on the chat you wish to lock instead of visiting the chat settings.
