Thousands of WhatsApp users in Ireland are set to benefit from a brand new privacy feature launched this week that helps to protect their intimate conversations.
The new feature being rolled out from today is called Chat Lock and it allows users to put specific conversations in a separate folder, which can then only be opened with a password, face ID or fingerprint from the user. Notifications will also hide the sender and contents of locked conversations.
It means that if somebody else has hold of your phone, they won't be able to see anything that's been assigned to the Lock folder on WhatsApp. Your private chats will instead be stored in a section at the top of the apps labeled "locked chats".
