In May, WhatsApp added chat blocking, a way to hide and fingerprint-protect certain chats. Blocked chats These appear in their own menu, accessible from the top of the chat list; so even though the chats themselves are private, that doesn’t mean you have secret chats.

A few weeks ago we discovered that WhatsApp will offer us the alternative of protecting our secret chats with a secret code instead of a fingerprint, but apparently this innovation will come with an additional change: blocked chats can be hidden completely, only shown when we search for the secret word.

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WhatsApp allows you to hide chats by removing them from the chat list and placing them in a separate menu called . Blocked chats. To enter this menu, you need to unlock access using the biometrics of the mobile phone; but you can also use a secret code in the future.

Little did we know that the secret code would also act as a magic word to make blocked chats appear. WaBetaInfo discovered that WhatsApp is trying to add a settings menu from which we can choose for blocked chats. hide blocked chats completely.

Nowadays, blocked chats are separated from the rest, but when you scroll down the list of chats, the menu appears if there is one. By enabling the option to hide blocked chats, In no case will they be shown in the chat listThis ensures that even if someone has access to our WhatsApp, they won’t know it’s there.

To show our blocked chats we have to: enter secret word into chat search engine. This word can be anything you choose, can vary in length, and may contain emojis, so it’s nearly impossible for someone to try and find it.

Now, Secret codes for blocked chats Although WhatsApp beta shows us that its development is very advanced, they are still not available to users, so it is possible for Meta to activate this function at any time.

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via | WaBetaInfo

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