WhatsApp Testing Secret Code Feature for Locked Chats: How it works

WhatsApp has begun testing a brand new function that permits you to conceal secret chats on the messaging app. With the most recent beta model of WhatsApp for Android, you possibly can set a secret code that can help you conceal particular chats from the primary listing. Currently, WhatsApp permits you to swipe down within the chat listing to open your hidden chats, however the brand new function will conceal them from even exhibiting up till the key code is entered. Meanwhile, WhatsApp can be engaged on creating a function that can help you set a username for channels.

After updating to WhatsApp beta for Android 2.23.24.20, it is possible for you to to set a secret code for hidden chats on the messaging app. In order to take action, open the listing of locked chats and faucet the three-dot menu on the prime > Chat lock settings > toggle Hide locked chats and enter a memorable secret code. WhatsApp particularly asks you to decide on a memorable secret code as resetting your secret code will clear all of your locked chats.

WhatsApp’s new secret code function
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Once you may have hidden your locked chats, they will not be seen within the Locked chats class that reveals up whenever you swipe down on the house display screen. Instead, you’ll have to enter the key code within the search bar to open the hidden (and locked) chat listing.

The function to cover locked chats will stop somebody who’s utilizing your cellphone from detecting the presence of locked chats in your cellphone — as an alternative of merely swiping down, they might want to enter your secret code. 

If you want to revert to the earlier locking mechanism that protects chats along with your fingerprint, you possibly can toggle Hide locked chats following the steps talked about above, after getting into your secret code. The locked chats will as soon as once more be seen with a swipe down on the listing of major chats.  

Meanwhile, function tracker WABetaInfo noticed a brand new function in improvement that can enable customers to set a username for channels. Once a username is ready, your channel subscribers will have the ability to enter the username to open the channel, in response to the tracker. The function remains to be being labored on, so beta testers will not have the ability to strive the function till it is rolled out on the beta channel at a later date.