WhatsApp is continually enhancing its user experience through beta testing, where select users help identify and fix bugs, refine features, and assess functionality. Beta testers get early access to innovations, acknowledging potential glitches. This process ensures stable updates before a global release.

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Recently, WhatsApp has released a new beta update (version 2.23.24.20), introducing a secret code feature for locked chats, available to some beta testers. This secret code feature allows users to hide the entry point to view locked chats, enhancing privacy.

How does this secret code feature work?

With this feature, users configure a secret code, and the entry point disappears from the chat list. Instead, users access locked chats by entering the secret code in the Chats tab’s search bar. Additionally, WhatsApp is adding a feature that allows users to easily clear their list of locked chats directly from the privacy settings. This feature comes in handy if a user forgets their secret code, as it prevents them from getting locked out of their conversations.

WhatsApp secret code feature

This enhanced privacy ensures that locked conversations remain hidden, protecting sensitive information from unauthorized access or accidental exposure. Even if someone gains physical access to a user’s phone, they won’t access these secured conversations without the secret code.

WhatsApp is gradually rolling out the secret code feature to more users over the next few weeks and it will potentially roll out as a stable update in the future.

WhatsApp continues to work on other features, including a privacy feature to hide IP addresses during calls and an alternate profile feature for separating work and personal communication. WhatsApp’s intention to introduce in-app ads has also been confirmed by its head.

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