The one of the Worlds most popular messaging Application WhatsApp seeks to enhance the user experience by introduction a new feature on to the platform.

Meta Chief Executive officer, Mark Zuckerberg announced the rolls out of the feature that will further help users hide their conversations using a secret code.

“Rolling out secret code to Chat Lock on WhatsApp so you can protect your chats with a unique password.

“Now you can set your locked chats to only appear when you type the secret code in the search bar, so no one can “unintentionally” discover your most private conversations. “Stated Zuckerberg on his WhatsApp channel.

Earlier this year Meta rolled out Chat Lock to help people protect their more sensitive conversations.

The secret code is an additional way to protect those chats and make them harder to find if someone has access to your phone or you share a phone with someone else.

According to the company with a secret code you’ll now be able to set a unique password different from what you use to unlock your phone to give your locked chats an extra layer of privacy. 

Here is what you get with the new whatsApp feature.

You’ll have the option to hide the Locked Chats folder from your chatlist so that they can only be discovered by typing your secret code in the search bar.

If that doesn’t suit your needs, you can still choose to have them appear in your chatlist.

Whenever there’s a new chat which you want to lock, you can now long press to lock it rather than visiting the chat’s settings.

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