WhatsApp news comes every week. With each new update, more features are added. security, design changes or enhancements to existing features in one of the world’s most downloaded instant messaging apps.

A few weeks ago, another big change appeared in one of the beta versions of the app. was about being able to protect chats using fingerprint or the face recognition feature of your Xiaomi mobile, ‘block conversations one by one.

This is how WhatsApp chat protection works

As we said, this new security feature was released a few weeks ago, but now, thanks to WABetaInfo, more about how it worksas seen in one of the beta versions of the app not yet available to all users.

Fingerprint lock is enabled according to the screenshots profile or group details. It will be next to other functions such as search, shared files or notifications and its name will be “chat lock‘.

When we click on it on our Xiaomi mobile, it will let us protect any of our conversations or WhatsApp groups individually with fingerprint so we have to unlock it every time we want to access it.

Additionally, as we can archive all our chats and they stay in an ‘archived’ folder, the same will be true for such encrypted messages. they will stay in the same folder named “blocked messages”‘.

Thanks to such functions, WhatsApp, an increasingly safe place for your conversations. Note that this new feature is still in development in beta, and it may take a few more weeks to officially reach your Xiaomi mobile.

Source | WABetaInfo

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