Let’s be real for T&T this new move by whatsapp will be touted as the new tool to keep your outside affairs more private and discreet.
The new locked chats in WhatsApp make your conversations more private.
They’re hidden in a password protected folder and notifications won’t show sender or message content.
Calling it “one more layer of security”, Meta – WhatsApp’s parent company – added Chat Lock will protect “your most intimate conversations” and hide notifications from them.
Chat Lock will remove a chat thread from the app’s regular onscreen inbox and place it into a new folder that can only be opened by a password or biometric, such as facial recognition or a fingerprint.
It’s the latest in a list of growing features on the globally-used, encrypted messaging service which puts it at odds with the UK government’s online safety bill.