WhatsApp now lets you hide locked chats to stop looking suspicious


WhatsApp previously let us password-protect certain chats. But to avoid arousing suspicion, you can now also hide these chats. — Photo: Zacharie Scheurer/dpa

BERLIN: WhatsApp has been letting us create password-protected chats for a few months now, to make sure certain conversations are safe from being accessed, even if someone else unlocks your phone.

And yet the very presence of a locked chat that can only be opened with a fingerprint, face scan, PIN or pattern can arouse suspicions if someone else sees it. For this reason, the Meta-owned chat app is letting you hide the fact that you have locked coversations.

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