In WhatsApp's latest update, the company announces a new feature called Secret Code. This feature for Chat Lock is an additional way to protect those chats and make them harder to find if someone has access to your phone or you share a phone with someone else.
With a Secret Code in WhatsApp, you’ll be able to set a unique password different from what you use to unlock your phone to give your locked chats an extra layer of privacy. There will be a Locked Chats folder from your chatlist and you can hide it if you like. It can only be discovered by typing your secret code in the search bar.
Alternatively, you can still choose to have it appear in your chatlist. Whenever there’s a new chat which you want to lock, you can now long press to lock it rather than visiting the chat’s settings. WhatsApp will continue to develop this feature over time and improve it further.
The Secret Code starts rolling out today, and in the coming months will be available globally. WhatsApp is excited to keep bringing more functions to Chat Lock to help people protect their privacy.
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