Online communications have become one of the sources of leaks the most important data from recent months. This not only happens to ordinary citizens, but also to journalists and politicians. That’s why it’s a good idea to keep chats as secure as possible.
To do this, certain parameters can be defined to allow Accessing WhatsApp chats, for example, is impossible if you don’t know the mobile password, even if the mobile is locked. What is possible is forgetting to lock the device or the app itself.
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For this, WhatsApp has developed an option in the settings of this application which allows it to automatically locks after a certain period of time. In this way it is possible to forget the cell phone on the table, even if it is unlocked, but no one can access the application.
Block WhatsApp
To activate this function we must open WhatsApp and access the Settings. There is a section called Confidentiality, which you must enter. At the bottom of this screen is an option called Application lock this is what allows this app to be opened only with our PIN, fingerprint unlock or similar method.
On this same screen You can configure the app to lock if a certain amount of time passes. More specifically, we have three options: Immediately, 1 minute or 30 minutes. In this way we combine comfort and safety, depending on the circumstances of each user.
Automatic blocking of WhatsApp
Also You can prevent messages or people who write to us from appearing in mobile notifications, something that could be a security breach or, at the very least, a lack of privacy. By simply enabling this setting, this data would appear hidden in notifications. It’s on the same Settings screen as the previous setting, as you can see in the screenshots in the image above.
WhatsApp is currently enabling another feature that allows you to hide private chats, which are those that have an extra layer of security. Thanks to this change, these discussions will not even appear in the search engine unless you are looking for the unlock code for that specific chat. This feature can only be used by certain beta users, but it’s only a matter of time before it becomes widespread.
