WhatsApp is Rolling Out Locked Chats Feature for Android Beta Users

WhatsApp users will soon have more privacy with their messages as WhatsApp is rolling out a "Locked Chats" feature through the Google Play Beta program for beta users.

The social media giant is confident that the feature will enhance privacy and user convenience and help curtail accidental private message exposure, ensuring high confidentiality for users.

Currently, the feature is only available to beta users who have installed the latest update of WhatsApp beta for Android from the Google Play Store.

However, once it rolls out to more people in the coming weeks, as confirmed by WhatsApp, it will only be available on linked devices with a new authentication process.

This means that to activate it, you will have to create a unique secret code, which you can use to access your locked chats on your linked devices. This secret code can incorporate emojis, so you can personalize it as much as you want, making it difficult to forget.

Also, you won't have fingerprint access for your linked devices as the secret code will be the primary authentication method.

Should this feature be released officially, it will become the second privacy feature that WhatsApp has released this month, with the other being the "Passkey" feature for iOS users, released last week.

These are evidence of WhatsApp's efforts towards protecting the security and privacy of its over 2.8 billion users globally, per data from Demand Sage.