How to protect your WhatsApp chats with password - La Provincia
Jealousy, toxic relationships or simply gossip. There are many reasons that can lead certain people to pick up a relative's mobile phone tospy your conversations of Whatsapp.
This more than questionable practice implies aflagrant violation of our privacy, not to mention the lack of trust that reflects whether it occurs in the context of a couple. As much as the message encryption function prevents what we send from reaching third parties, if someonetake our phone and unlock it we are totally helpless€ or we were.
The reality is that there are several options to protect ourselves against these 'phone snoopers'. Here we propose a couple of solutions that will provide you with a quiet life, without the need to sleep with your mobile phone under the pillow or store it in a safe at night.
Screen lock
The app itself already offers the possibility of blocking access to it, either through apasswordor through thefingerprint or facial recognition.
To activate this function, it is necessary to have thelatest version of WhatsApp, and enter the settings section. Once there, we select the 'account' section, then access the 'privacy' menu.
Among the options presented to us in that section, the one we will have to activate is called 'Screen lock'. In this way, every time you or someone else tries to access the application, you will be asked for a password previously chosen by you, or the aforementioned alternatives of the fingerprint or facial recognition.
Applications to put passwords to chats
Also existexternal applicationsthat offer this function, for those who do not have the most updated version of WhatsApp or do not trust their shadow.
'Apps' like'Chat Lock for WhatsApp 'or'Locker for Whats Chat', available in the App Store, allow us to block access to our instant messaging through a password. In this way, the concern that they spy on us will not take our sleep again.
And, after all, it is a matter of privacy, it does not mean that we have anything to hide. If you explain it to your loved ones, even the most gossip will have no choice but to understand it.
