Meta said this chat privacy feature will put threads behind a password or biometric ID in a separate folder.
Meta announced that users can now select whether they want to lock any chat by tapping twice on any single or group chat and selecting the lock function. This hides the who, what, and when of the chat behind their own separate folder. Notifications still pop up, but locked chats now hide the message and who sent it. The locked chats don’t automatically appear on the main WhatsApp interface, and users need to scroll down on the inbox to get the separate folder to show up.
The feature also came with a video showing one man’s agonizing efforts to keep his family from seeing he’s been texting a significant other. Sure, it’s easy to imply some nefarious reason somebody would want to lock down certain chats, but anybody who doesn’t want to regularly explain to whom they were talking to and why, it does seem like a useful feature.
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