WhatsApp: three tricks to completely hide your chats and protect your messages

Users have the ability to “hide” chats on WhatsApp not only to better organize conversations, but also to “make disappear” messages that they prefer to keep hidden. This function that few know about is available thanks to the Chat Lock option and blocks conversations so that they can only be read with a secret code.

The function of hide chat and put a “key” on messages It allows you to prioritize conversations and have more privacy and is available on both Android cell phones and iPhone. Once activated, to read or send messages, simply unlock chats with device authentication, such as your phone’s passcode, Face ID, fingerprint, or a secret code that you set.

These chats will be in the Blocked Chats folder, separate from the rest, and once the messages are blocked, the contact will be hidden and the content of the notification will be hidden as well. In fact, when a message is received from this private chat, the following notification will appear “WhatsApp: 1 new message.”

How to hide chats with a secret code with the Chat Lock feature

To activate the function Chat Lock which allows you to protect conversations with a secret code, these steps must be followed:

• Open WhatsApp and select the chat you want to block to the left or hold it down.
• Touch the three dots icon at the top right and click “Block chat”.
• Choose the option “Block this chat with fingerprint” o “Block this chat with Face ID.”

After activating the chat lock, you can choose to lock them with a secret code different from the phone access code.

As additional privacy layer, You can also hide the locked chats folder so that it does not appear in the chats list and is only shown when you type the secret code in the search bar.

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How to create a secret code for WhatsApp chats

With the secret code users will set a unique password different from the one they use to unlock the phone to add an extra level of privacy for locked chats.

To do this, all messages that are marked as hidden can only be seen if a specific password or code is entered in the search bar, which may contain letters, numbers, symbols and emojis.

To create a secret code, you must:

• Go to the Blocked Chats folder and click “Settings”.
• Tap “Secret Code” and then “Create Secret Code.”
• At this point you have to create a code and click “Next”.
• Finally, you must confirm the code and press “Done”.

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How to archive chats on WhatsApp

Another lighter alternative is the archive chat on WhatsApp. To do this, you must follow the following steps:

• Click on the conversation you want to archive.
• At that time, at the top right there will be a square with an arrow pointing down.
• Press there and the conversation will be automatically archived

To view archived chatsyou only need to click above the chats, where you can read “Archived”.

If they wish desarchivar el chat, They must go to the archived chats, choose the conversation in question, and the icon of a square with an up arrow will appear at the top right. Once this step is completed, the conversation will appear in the main window of the app.

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How to keep chats permanently archived on WhatsApp

Los chats may remain permanently archived even though new messages are received. In this case, you must activate the option “Keep chats archived”, in the application settings. To do this, you will have to follow these steps:

• Go to WhatsApp, click on the three-dot menu
• Click on “Archiving settings”
• Activate the “Keep chats archived” option.