Whether to have a personal conversation with someone, to tell something to an employee or to give a circular to the public about a new scheme, today all these works are being done through the instant messaging app WhatsApp. More than 2 billion people use WhatsApp worldwide. From time to time Meta also brings many updates to improve the user experience on this platform. Today, through this article, know how you can hide your chats on WhatsApp. That is, how can you prevent others from seeing your chats or put security on it. You do not need any third party application at all for this work.
You must have often seen that people keep their personal or work-related chats archived so that no one else can read them. The disadvantage in archived chat is that you do not know the update of the new message. In such a situation, many times the necessary information is not available on time. Know today how you can hide your chats from others without archiving or putting security on it. It is very easy to do this work on both Android and iOS.
Hide your chats from others like this
do this in iphone
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First of all, open WhatsApp on your iPhone and go to the Settings option and click on Privacy. Now here you will see the screen lock option. As soon as you click on it, you will see two options, in which the first is ‘Required Face ID’ or the second is Required Touch ID. Select any option you want to choose from this. Now you will again get an option in which you will be asked what will be the screen lock time. Means to apply it immediately or after 1 minute or after 15 minutes or after 1 hour. Choose any option you want from this and close WhatsApp. Now next time whenever you open WhatsApp, you will get this layer of security, even after which you will be able to access your chats. In this way no other person will be able to access your chat.
do it like this in android
To hide chat in Android, first of all open WhatsApp and go to Settings and choose Privacy option. Now here you will see the option of ‘finger lock’, click on it. Once you have given permission, when you open WhatsApp next time, you will have to apply finger lock first, only then you will be able to open your WhatsApp. Note, here also you can choose the time to lock WhatsApp.
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