Hide blocked chats on WhatsApp: Step by step for newbies
WhatsApp, like many other instant messaging apps with massive and global use such as Telegram, includes and continually develops useful functions for daily use and privacy options for your users. For this reason, we, at Móvil Forum, are always bringing you suitable and very practical articles with these news. Both in an informative and practical way, through small quick guides and complete tutorials on them.
Being 2 good and recent examples of this, our posts on how you learn to hide a chat on whatsapp and about the best method to hide your WhatsApp contacts. For this reason, and in that same direction, to continue improving the knowledge and use of said communication tool, today we will offer you a new and small quick guide on how to hide blocked Chats on WhatsApp. So that any novice or beginner can achieve it successfully. And also, that anyone can apply an additional level of privacy and security to what is done within it.
However, it is worth clarifying before starting that, We should not confuse the concept of Blocking a Chat and hide them with blocked Chats that can be hidden.
Since, while the first refers to normal Chats, individual or group, which we can block in a traditional way through the options menu and lock option to stop receiving your messages, calls and status updates on WhatsApp. The second refers to those Chats that are configured through the new WhatsApp feature called “Chat Lock”, which allows users to block individual or group chats in their conversations list.
Hide blocked Chats on WhatsApp: Step by step of the new function
Continuing with the above, that is, the new WhatsApp function that will soon reach all of us within it, it is important to highlight that this function, in addition to keep chats marked as blocked closed, will allow us to also keep them completely hidden in the list of our conversations, thus allowing us to remain out of sight of unauthorized third parties.
As they have explained in a simple and clear way in the respective official announcement about said new function:
If you lock a chat, the conversation is moved from your inbox to its own folder that can only be accessed with your device's password or biometric data (such as fingerprint). The content of that chat is also automatically hidden in notifications.
Step by step to use the future function
Yes, you are already one of those who enjoy this new WhatsApp function called «Chat Lock» (Chat Lock) To use it, you only have to do the following: steps to activate it and then use it:
Activation
- We start the WhatsApp mobile app on our phone.
- Next, we slowly slide our fingers down the screen from the inbox until the app asks us to enter our password or biometric data to access it.
- Once inside the Blocked Chats folder, we proceed to press the options menu (Settings).
- And for now, as shown in the image immediately below, we can activate or deactivate the "Hide Blocked Chats" so that the Blocked Chats folder is visible or not to everyone, including ourselves. In addition to being able to configure a secret access code different from the one we already use on the mobile, that is, the current PIN.
Use
- To block a chat, we must touch the name of the person or group that we want or need to block. And then, through the options menu, we must select the “Block” option.
- To see these blocked chats in the respective hidden folder of Blocked Chats, we must repeat step number 2 explained above.
Finally, and as WhatsApp has expressed, for now this is what can be done with this new function, but wait over time add more options or possibilities of use.
In summary, this new function of WhatsApp call «Chat Lock» (Chat Lock) and as can be clearly seen, it will be a special addition for those who, for various reasons, would like or need to block and hide certain chats with a higher level of privacy and security, very different from the traditional way that had been implemented.
Since, on the one hand, this new mechanism it is easier to manage to maintain privacy individual or group conversations via an access code. And, the fact that the Blocked Chats Folder does not appear in the main chat list, will avoid the curiosity of unauthorized third parties, who for different reasons could have physical access to our mobile phone and want to spy on our conversations without our permission.