WhatsApp It brings together 35.8 million active users only in Spain and more than 2.9 billion worldwide. Goal, the matrix company of the application, ensures that chats are encrypted from end to end, however, All caution is little to protect confidential conversationswhether personal or labor.
There are people who are not enough for the messages that you send and receive are encrypted and only decipher when they reach their devices. That may be because another individual knows the telephone unlock key or that Mark Zuckerberg’s platform is open in the web browser. Luckily, WhatsApp has functions that allow to safeguard our most private chats.
Put a key to your WhatsApp
Both in the application and on WhatsApp Web, there is a function that allows you to block access to all your chats. Through this tool, users can introduce a key so that no one but can read them.
In the browser version, it’s called ‘Screen block’ And it works with a password that must include between 6 and 128 characters that are common letters, numbers or signs. On the other hand, the mobile application has ‘Dactilar footprint block’. Both options are enabled and disabled within the ‘privacy’ section of WhatsApp settings.
Block your most secret conversations
Not all chats have to be important and private. You may only want to hide some and not having to introduce a password or the fingerprint whenever you enter the platform. For these cases, there is a function to protect the most confidential conversations.
This option is only enabled in the application and can be activated when clicking on the name of the contact or group in question within the chat. In doing so, a section is opened with information about the conversation and with several functions. One of them is ‘Chats block’ That, when activating, blocking and hiding the conversation only on the phone.
How to hide that you are online, your last connection or your reads on WhatsApp?
Another problem that can affect the day to day is the information that WhatsApp ‘Chiva’ other users within the app. By default, the platform details when we are connected, when it was our last connection and when we read a message. That can take its toll in the work and personal environment, but it can be disabled.
To do so, you must go to ‘Settings’> ‘Privacy’ And edit who can see your last connection hour, your ‘online’, your profile picture or your reading confirmations. It should be noted that, if you limit this data to other contacts, you will not be able to see them.
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