WhatsApp offers many ways to protect our privacy, and one of the most useful and interesting is private chats. If we use this function, even if we lend the mobile phone to someone or share its use, this You will not be able to access chats that we have assigned to the private chats folder. We can even hide them completely with a secret code.

But this feature has one big flaw: secret chats Available only on mobile or host device. This means that if you use WhatsApp Web on your computer or your WhatsApp account on a second phone, your private chats on the other device will not be protected. Fortunately, WhatsApp will fix this problem soon.

Your WhatsApp chats are always protected on all your devices

That’s what the WABetaInfo folks discovered in the latest beta version of WhatsApp for Android. Meta is finalizing work on an update that will allow us to have the same blocked or private chats on all devices we use.

So, if you block some chats on your main phone so that only you can access them, these chats will also be blocked on a second phone where you use your account. In summary, WhatsApp will protect your private chats on all your connected devices.

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Starting with the arrival of this privacy feature, users will need to: create a secret code on the host device Being able to access private chats on other devices connected to our account. It seems that, at least in principle, fingerprints cannot be used to unlock private chats on connected devices, only this secret code, which can even include emojis.

This new security measure for most private chats was first discovered back in April, but now WABetaInfo has confirmed that the feature is already reaching beta users on Android, so it’s expected to be available to everyone in the coming weeks. users on the stable version of the application.

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