WhatsApp offers many ways to protect our privacy, and one of the most useful and interesting is private chats. If we use this function, even if we lend the cell phone to someone, or if we share its use, it is You will not be able to access chats that we assign to the private chats folder. You can even hide them completely with a secret code.
However, this feature has a major flaw: secret chats They can only be used on the mobile or primary device. This means that if you use WhatsApp Web on your computer or your WhatsApp account on a second phone, your private chats will not be protected on that other device. Fortunately, WhatsApp will solve this problem soon.
Your WhatsApp chats always protected, on all your devices
This is what the folks at WABetaInfo discovered in the latest beta version of WhatsApp for Android. Meta is finishing work on an update that will allow us to have the same blocked or private chats on all the devices we use.
In other words, if you block certain chats so that only you can access them on your primary phone, they will also be blocked on a second phone where you use your account. In summary, WhatsApp will protect your private chats on all your linked devices.
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As soon as this privacy feature arrives, users will have to create a secret code on the main device to be able to access private chats on other devices linked to our account. Apparently, at least in principle, the fingerprint cannot be used on linked devices to unlock private chats, only this secret code which can even include emojis.
This new security measure for the most private chats was first discovered in April, but now at WABetaInfo they have been able to confirm that this feature is already reaching beta users on Android, so in the coming weeks it should be available to all users in the stable version of the application.
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