For a long time, Whatsapp has maintained its stance that it tries its best to safeguard users privacy. The company has been working on a number of features aiming to enhance users privacy, such as the introduction of locked chats, full encryption label, stopping people from taking screenshots of display photos, and so on. Generally, users are afraid that someone wil read all the personal chats. So, to eliminate this fear, Whatsapp has a unique feature which you can use to hide personal chats. Whats that feature WhatsApp Chat Lock feature, is a feature which can be used to lock chats which will help you to keep your chats safe. If you want to lock personal chat on WhatsApp, then you have to follow some simple steps.Follow this simple steps to hide personal chatThe first step is to open the contact with whom you want to lock your chat to keep it secure.So, on Whatsapp, you have tap on three dots on the top right side. Now, after doing so click on view contact. Then scroll down a bit and you will find Chat Lock option. Click on that option. As soon as you click on the chat lock option, you will see the Continue option. After clicking on this option, you can lock the chat with the help of face lock or fingerprint lock.If you want to lock chat with fingerprint sensor. So, click on the sensor and then your chat will be locked. The hidden chat will be available in the locked chats section of your chat list. The locked chat will open only when you use the fingerprint sensor or face unlock feature again.How to hide locked chat The chat is locked but if you want to hide the locked chat section shown at the top of the chat list, then you just open the locked chat once. Now, you have to click on the three dots on the right side at the top. Then after this, you will find chat lock settings option where you will get two options. The first one is for Hide Locked Chats and the second option is for Secret Code.To hide locked chat, you will have to resort to both the options. Turn on the Hide Locked Chats option and then click on the Secret Code option. After tapping on the secret code, the app will ask you to create the secret code. After creating the secret code and turning on Hide Locked Chats, you will no longer see the Locked Chats section in the chat list. This means that your locked chats will also disappear secretly.How to find hidden chats If you want to find the locked chat after hiding it secretly, then after opening the app, you will have to search by typing your secret code in the search. You will see your locked chat.
