WhatsApp’s Alleged Plan: Introducing Secret Code for Locked Chats on Web Client

WhatsApp’s Existing Feature: Secret Codes for Locked Chats on Mobile Platforms

WhatsApp is reportedly enhancing its Chat Lock feature, with developments underway for its implementation on the web version of the messaging platform. Already available on WhatsApp for iOS and Android, users can lock specific chats behind a secret code, bolstering privacy and security. The forthcoming integration of this feature on WhatsApp Web, as indicated by insights shared by a feature tracker, underscores the platform’s commitment to enhancing user privacy across all its interfaces.

The discovery, made by feature tracker WABetaInfo within the latest version of WhatsApp Web, suggests that the secret codes for locked chats functionality is currently in development.

While this enhancement holds promise for bolstering privacy on the web client, it remains inaccessible even to beta testers in its current stage of development. As WhatsApp continues to refine this feature, users can anticipate a seamless extension of chat security measures to the web platform in the near future.

The feature is expected to work in the same manner as the one available on WhatsApp for Android and iOS, allowing users to lock and hide some chats from the main list of chats, behind a secret code. This code can be a word, a phrase — including emoji and special characters. Users can then enter the same secret code to show the list of locked and hidden chats.

Using this feature, WhatsApp users will be able to safeguard some of their chats from prying eyes on a shared laptop or desktop computer where more than one user has access. Just like the Chat Lock feature on WhatsApp for iOS and Android that was rolled out last November, these chats are only displayed when the secret code is entered correctly.