WhatsApp is one of the most popular messaging apps in the world, used by billions of people to connect with friends, family, and colleagues. While WhatsApp offers various security features to protect your messages and data, there may be times when you want to add an extra layer of privacy to a specific chat. Fortunately, WhatsApp for Android allows you to lock individual chats, ensuring that only you can access them. In this blog post, we’ll guide you through the process of locking a particular chat in WhatsApp for Android. So let us know How to lock Particular Chat in WhatsApp for Android
Chat Lock in WhatsApp
Good news for Android users, Now you can turn on the chat lock feature in your WhatsApp messenger. Once you turn on the Chat lock feature, you will need to unlock the WhatsApp chat. Any particular chat in WhatsApp for Android can be locked using device authentication such as a passcode, FACE ID or Fingerprint. There was a time when people wanted to lock their particular chat in WhatsApp, but there was not any simple method. People had to use any third-party app to lock particular chats in WhatsApp. Now we will teach you “how to lock particular chat in WhatsApp for Android without any app”
How to lock Particular Chat in WhatsApp for Android
To lock any particular chat in WhatsApp, you must have set up device authentication. Your device authentication may be your password, PIN, Face ID or Fingerprint.
How to turn on chat lock in WhatsApp for Android
- Tap chat info and select chat lock
- Select “Lock this chat with fingerprint” and confirm your fingerprint
There will be a separate “lock chat” folder in which your locked chat will be visible after providing authentication.
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How to Lock Perticular Chat in WhatsApp- Video
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You must know some points about chat lock in WhatsApp. Let us discuss
- When any message comes from the person whose chat is locked, it will be seen as “WhatsApp: 1 new message
- Group chat can also be locked
- When you turn on the chat-locked option, the person whose chat is locked, would not know you have locked the chat.
- If you are using chat chat-locked option on your mobile, that means it will work only for your phone and not for another device such as WhatsApp web etc
So use this method to lock your personal chat on your WhatsApp messenger. Now no one can see your private chat even if your WhatsApp app is open.
