WhatsApp may soon allow you to lock access to some of your conversations. In a recent beta version of the Android application, the WABetaInfo site, always very well informed when it comes to WhatsApp, discovered several clues in this direction in the messaging system.
Your private conversations even better protected
According to the screenshots published by WABetaInfo, Meta would be working on a new option to lock access to certain conversations. This new protection system would thus make it possible to block access to messages, but also to multimedia content (photos, videos, documents) of your discussions thanks to a PIN code or the fingerprint sensor integrated into the smartphone. If the site does not specify it, there is a good chance that this new feature will also support facial recognition on devices with such an option.
To lock access to your most private chats, WhatsApp would have planned to integrate this new option directly into the conversation information. Once a conversation is added to the list of locked discussions, it will only be accessible from a dedicated section. In addition, opening them will only be possible following authentication on your part, using a PIN code or biometric recognition. A priori, no other option is provided to open a locked discussion. Furthermore, in order to ensure optimal security for the content of these locked conversations, WhatsApp will display a notification inviting to delete the content of these in the event that the user authentication has failed too many times.
Thanks to this additional layer of security, WhatsApp further strengthens its arsenal aimed at protecting the privacy of its users. The instant messaging application, which encrypts all conversations end-to-end, already offers a similar option to completely lock the opening of the application. At the start of 2019, WhatsApp introduced an option to unlock the application using Touche ID, the iPhone’s fingerprint sensor, or Face ID, the smartphone’s facial recognition module. ‘Apple. At the end of 2019, WhatsApp had updated its application on Android smartphones to introduce this same option.
For the time being, no date of availability of this new privacy option is known. However, this new option, whose development seems rather well advanced, might arrive quite quickly in a future update of the application.
