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A quick guide to successfully hide blocked WhatsApp chats

Posted: Wed Dec 04, 2024 6:25 am
by shahriya688
WhatsApp , like many other instant messaging applications with mass and global use, such as Telegram, includes and constantly develops useful features for daily use and privacy options for your users . For this reason, we at Móvil Forum always offer you relevant and very practical articles with these news. Both informative and practical, with small short guides and full guides from them.


Our how-to posts are two good and recent examples of how to hide a WhatsApp chat and the best way to hide your WhatsApp contacts. For this reason and in the same direction to continue to improve the knowledge and use of the mentioned communication tool, today we will offer you a new and small short guide on how to hide blocked chats in WhatsApp. So any belgium telegram mobile phone number list beginner or beginner can successfully achieve this. And also that anyone can apply an extra level of privacy and security to what is done within it.

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However, before starting this, it is worth clarifying, We should not confuse the concept of blocking chats and hiding them with blocked chats that can be hidden.


Since the first refers to normal chats, individual or group, which we can block in the traditional way through the options menu and the block option to stop receiving your messages, calls and status updates on WhatsApp. The second refers to those chats that are set up through WhatsApp's new feature called Chat Blocking , which allows users to block individual or group chats in their conversation list.

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A quick guide to successfully hide blocked WhatsApp chats

Hide blocked chats in WhatsApp: step by step of the new feature
Continuing the above, that is, the new feature of WhatsApp that will soon reach all of us, it is important to emphasize that this feature, in addition to leaving the chats marked as blocked, closed , will also allow us to completely hide them in the list of our conversations, thus allowing us to remain out of sight unauthorized third parties.

As they explained in a simple and clear way in the corresponding official announcement about the new feature:


If you lock a chat, the conversation is moved from your inbox to a separate folder that can only be accessed using your device's password or biometrics (such as your fingerprint). The content of this chat is also automatically hidden in notifications.

A step-by-step guide to using the upcoming Chat Block feature.

Step by step to use future feature
Yes, you are already one of those who like this new WhatsApp feature called "Chat Lock" To use it, you just need to follow the following steps: Steps to activate it and then use it :


Activation
We launch the WhatsApp mobile application on our phone.
Next, we slowly slide our fingers down the screen from the inbox until the app asks us to enter a password or biometrics to access it.
Once in the "Blocked chats" folder, we go to the options menu (Settings).
And currently, as shown in the image below, we can enable or disable Hide Blocked Chats to make the Blocked Chats folder visible or not to everyone, including ourselves. In addition to being able to set a secret access code different from the one we already use on the mobile phone, i.e. the current PIN.
Chat blocking activation

Use
To block a chat, we must tap on the name of the person or group we want or need to block. And then through the options menu we have to select the "Block" option.
To see these blocked chats in the corresponding hidden folder "Blocked chats", we have to repeat the step #2 described above.
Finally, and as WhatsApp has expressed, this is what you can do with this new feature for now, but wait for more options or uses to be added over time .

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Thus, this new feature of WhatsApp is called "Chat Lock" and, as you can clearly see, it will be a special addition for those who, for various reasons, want or need to block and hide certain chats with a higher level of privacy and security , which very different from the traditional way that was implemented.

Because, on the one hand, this new mechanism is easier to manage to preserve the privacy of individual or group conversations using an access code. And the fact that the folder of blocked chats is not displayed in the main list of chats will avoid the curiosity of unauthorized third parties who, for various reasons, may have physical access to our mobile phone and want to monitor our conversations without our permission.

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