YOGYAKARTA - WhatsApp users on Android and iPhone, can activate the message key feature or Chat Lock to increase the extra privacy layer to each conversation. Want to know how to hide WA chats with a secret code?

To read or send messages, users are required to open Chat Lock using device authentication, such as HP password, Face ID, fingerprint, or with a secret code that users can set.

The locked chat will be placed separately from your other chats in the Lock Chat folder.

When activating Chat Lock, notification and contact content will be kept secret. Notifications will be displayed as "WhatsApp: 1 new message" only.

To help maintain media privacy, you must disable the chat key to store the media into the HP gallery.

If you activate a chat lock on one phone, the chat will only be locked on that device. If you have another feature that is linked to WhatsApp, for example laptops, chats in the linked feature will not be locked.

On its official website, WhatsApp describes the steps of the method of activating Chat Lock, then hiding locked messages with a secret code. Here's more:

Enable WhatsApp Lock Chat

You can activate or disable the Chat Lock feature to create any chat. If you haven't prepared device authentication, such as a cellphone password, fingerprint, or face ID (Face ID) ID, you want to be asked to prepare it before locking the chat.

Create WhatsApp secret code

After activating Lock Chat, You can choose to lock the chat with a different secret code from the phone's password.

Create an extra privacy layer, You can also choose to hide the Lock Chat folder so that it doesn't appear on the chat list and only arises when you type a secret code into the Search.

To create a secret code:

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For more details, you can read: 'How to Access the 2024 Election Chatbot Via WhatsApp'.

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