Yes ok WhatsApp allows you to block access to your mobile application using a password, fingerprint or facial identification on compatible mobile phones, these may be insufficient security measures for many users who may give access to the app to nearby people, with the possibility that they see private chats. Therefore, below we present a small trick to hide chats from the general list of WhatsApp conversations, so that whoever enters your personal account enters, can't read certain conversations that you prefer to keep private, natively and without resorting to third-party apps. Next, how to hide WhatsApp chats on iOS and Android mobiles.
How to hide WhatsApp chats on iOS and Android
To do this, we must send the chats that we want to view to the WhatsApp file through the function Archive chats, a tool that we can access in different ways depending on our mobile operating system, that is to say, iOS either Android.
How to hide WhatsApp chats on iPhone
So, if we have our WhatsApp in iPhone, we just have to access the general list of WhatsApp conversations and slide your finger on the chat that we want to hide from right to left; A menu of options will automatically open and the option file; click on it.
In this way, the archived chats will be hidden from the main message screen of your WhatsApp; To return to them we have two options available to us. The first option is wait to receive a new message from that conversation; In this way, the chat will appear again in the section open WhatsApp chatsp.
The second option is to access the hidden chat through the option Archived chats; To access it we just have to scroll down the list of open chats until we find this option. Once inside, Swipe from right to left on the chat that you want to recover and click on Unarchive.
How to hide WhatsApp chats on Android
In the case of Android, the system for archiving or hiding chats is very similar although with some differences. Thus, we only have to access the general list of WhatsApp conversations and keep your finger on the conversation for a few moments to hide until the option appears Archive chat through a pop-up window; Click on this option.
To access the archived chats we must scroll to the end of all open conversations and click on the option Archived. Inside the menu Archived We will see all the conversations that we have previously archived; Even in this menu we can access the attachments of said chats and see all the messages as if they were in the standard WhatsApp chats section.
To return an archived chat to the normal WhatsApp conversations section we just have to keep finger on chat and click on Unarchive from the pop-up menu that will appear. Thus, said chat will return to the normal WhatsApp conversations section, visible to everyone who accesses your WhatsApp through your device.