How to Hide WhatsApp Chats on Android and iPhone
Everybody in the world tends to use whatsapp these days whether you want to message your friends and family or just keep in contact with them through video chats or maybe you even use it for work and because of this sometimes your whatsapp chats can be ridiculously private and you don't want other people seeing them so if you lend your phone and they go on your whatsapp you want those chats to be nice and privatey
How you can keep those whatsapp chats locked private and keep them away from prying eyes there are some really easy ways to be able to hide these whatsapp chats and whatsapp gives you a default option to do so on both your iphone and android and it is really easy and it is to archive those chats archiving chats means they are still available on whatsapp
when someone sends you a message you don't get a notification for it and then to view that message you would then have to go into that archive section on whatsapp yourself to see it so let me show you exactly how easy it is to make sure those chats are archived and hidden away first of all we'll start with iphone and you need to make sure you open up whatsapp and choose a chat that you'd like to hide what you need to do then is just swipe left to see the additional options then what you'll see is an option to archive that chat and simply just tap archive option from here additionally you can choose multiple chats to move to the archive as we're telling you now the third step is to open whatsapp and scroll all the way to the top and find these secret conversations and they'll just be near that search bar and then that is where you would find those archived chats to view these archived chats just select the archive chat option
if you wanted to make that chat visible again on whatsapp you just have to swipe away and tap the un archive button and that's how straightforward and simple it is to make sure you archive it on an iphone but if you have an android let me show you how you would do it on that as well on your android phone you need to open up whatsapp and when you're in there find the chat and hold the chat that you want to save tap the archive button in the corner of the screen after making the necessary selections you can now click this button to access the archive chats the archive chats will just be sat there where you can see them and select them choose the conversation you want to reveal and then you can tap the un archive button to bring them back to your main whatsapp home screen just like you did on the iphone option and it is that simple to make sure those chats are archived on both android and iphone but what if you want to hide your chats and not use the archive well let me show you how you would do that if you don't want to archive your chats and want to use whatsapp to make sure they're still safe and secure then you might want to get something called gb whatsapp which you can get on both android and on iphone and this is a third-party whatsapp piece of software which gives you additional security and privacy features which you don't get on the standard whatsapp sadly though if you have an iphone you'd have to do a jailbreak to get gb whatsapp and jailbreaks can be a bit fiddly and you have to be on a certain software so this one is more catered towards the android users
if you want to make sure that you can get it on iphone you'd have to jailbreak your phone but just be very careful when doing it but if you have that android phone then let me show you exactly how you would use gb whatsapp to make sure your chats are safe and secure first enable app installation from unknown sources in settings and security on your device then go to the official website of gb whatsapp and get the app then you would have to uninstall whatsapp from your android device open the gb whatsapp on your phone and enter the current phone number connected to your whatsapp account and verify it by entering the one-time password and using whatsapp's more sophisticated features simply select the chats you want to hide and tap the more options button which is usually the three dots icon at the top and then simply tap the hide option from here at this point a pattern screen will appear and you can enter a lot code for the hidden chats in order to remember the pattern it must be distinct from the phone's lock screen then open gb whatsapp and tap the whatsapp icon in the top left corner to view your hidden chats
You then need to confirm the hidden chat pattern lock to view all previously saved conversations here you can select any chat and select it as unread by tapping the hamburger or three dot icon at the top the chosen chats will then be sent to whatsapp home after being unhidden so a really good way to not have your chats archived but still hidden from anyone that is on your phone and that makes them nice and secure but let's give you another option as well sometimes even hiding your chats away is not enough because some people will know exactly where to look in your archive or some people will have known of gb whatsapp and know exactly where they are hidden and that is when we then have to turn to another third-party app that can lock your apps on your android device there are loads of these apps inside the play store and it helps you lock any sort of app that you need to keep it nice and secure and of course you can get any app locker from the play store let me show you exactly how you would use it to lock whatsapp after installation open the application and there you will have to enable the option to lock whatsapp just make sure you've previously granted the app all and necessary permissions it would need type in a special four digit pin that serves as whatsapp's lock now you must enter that pin every single time whatsapp is opened that means then your chats are secure from prying eyes you can also launch an updated version of whatsapp on your android phone and sometimes some of these will also support fingerprint scanning if you have one and to do this you can go to settings privacy and fingerprint lock and enable the feature to unlock whatsapp with your fingerprint from this point you can select whatsapp to lock itself after a pre-determined time which is handy
if you accidentally just leave your phone lying around three really good ways to lock and hide your chats from other people having a little look at what you're talking about but what if you want to backup or restore or keep your chats nice and safe well let me talk to you about mobile trans if you're trying to lock your whatsapp chats away that means that there's usually some really important information that you don't want people to see or you might have some really important family photos or chats from loved ones that you want to make sure are backed up secure and means that you can then access them at any time if you potentially lose your phone and a one piece of software that can work really well for this is something called mobile trans mobile trans is a powerful application that can perform a full backup of your whatsapp data with a single click this includes your whatsapp chats media files contacts voice notes stickers and all other data aside from that it can then mean you can restore whatsapp chats and move them from one device to another so now you know what mobile trends can do let me show you exactly how you would use it to backup your data you need to connect your phone to the system and launch mobile trans and then just launch the backup
Restore feature from its home page next navigate to the app backup and restore section and click the backup button and then select whatsapp then press the start button to start backing up your whatsapp data to your computer and mobile trends will notify you when that process has been completed and then that is when you can unplug your device and view the backup but remember it's important that your device stays connected to the computer during the entirety of that backup or restore to make sure that the process completes without any problems there we are three really useful ways to lock your whatsapp chats from an archive to an app locker and also a way to hide it with gb whatsapp and we then showed you mobile trans where if you ever need to backup your important whatsapp data
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