WhatsApp will let you lock your conversations with your fingerprint

Meta engineers will offer you to lock your most secret chats using a fingerprint, password or biometric identifier.

WhatsApp engineers are delivering new features at breakneck speed… to the delight of messaging users. Today, WABetaInfo is relaying the appearance of a fairly new feature, which only beta testers enrolled in the testing program will soon be able to release. Of course, this feature will be deployed to the consumer version if the tests are conclusive.

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WhatsApp version 2.23.8.2 on Android will emphasize the security of your data and your privacy by allowing you to lock and hide a conversation using a password or any other biometric identifier. Meta is often criticized for its poor management of private data Internet users, this is undoubtedly the reason why Mark Zuckerberg’s company puts forward so many features related to the protection of personal information.

WhatsApp will allow you to lock the conversations of your choice

Thus, as WhatsApp Beta Info asserts, “it will be possible to lock your most private chats directly in contact information or chat group. A new page listing locked chats will be added to the app, and this is where you can open a chat. The other benefit of locking conversations is that the media shared in the thread, be it photos, audio or video content, will not be saved elsewhere in the smartphone.

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In recent weeks, in addition to these data protection features, Meta’s messaging application has launched a slew of new features. WhatsApp will soon allow you to edit the images or videos you send with text and emojis. Managing ephemeral messages will become easier and more flexible with more timeout options, and you’ll even be able to pin important messages within a conversation.