Whatsapp is known to continuously update messaging up to make the experience better for end users. Whatsapp was one of few messaging platforms to introduce end to end encryption to enhance the privacy of your chats and to make it impossible for anyone read your messages while they are on the way to intended devices or users. In similar bid to enhance the user experience, whatsapp is soon going to introduce the locked chats feature for its users.
By using the whatsapp chats lock, you will be able to put certain chats in locked chats area. So anyone willing to read those protected chats, will need a passcode or otherwise they will just be accessible by your fingerprint. According to initial spilled details, there will be one single protected area with all the chats which have been locked. The area will be password protected, which will only be accessed by passcode or fingerprint.
It is a big deal. Let us assume someone asks for your phone for making a quick call but then goes on to peak into your chats to see what you have been talking about with whom. Well, now you will be able to handover your device to others without worrying about the privacy of your chats and communications with others over whatsapp.
Also any pictures or videos sent over a locked chat will not be saved to your phone’s gallery automatically. They would be saved to some hidden place, may be with some encryption on them. However, you may have option to bring them to gallery, if you think, this is not something you would like to keep private. However, exact details of how this encapsulation of media will work, will be more apparent after the feature is rolled out.
Speaking of feature rolling out, in the past we have seen that sometimes whatsapps rolls its new features to its apple iPhone users first and later on an update of that feature comes out to Android users. However, we are hoping that this time Whatsapp works of its apps, the iPhone app and Android app, to make the simultaneous release of the feature available.
Such small and convenient features are the things, which can attract more users to a platform from the other platforms. And whatsapp is a platform, where its developers constantly keep working to bring new features. Same is the reason that I am safe to assume that Whatsapp is most widely used messaging consumer platform for messaging, the worldover.