WhatsApp: so you can protect your conversations with a fingerprint

The privacy of our conversations and the content we share through WhatsApp, Facebook, or Twitter are aspects that we pay more and more attention to. Therefore, it is necessary to know the methods offered by the messaging service, both on iOS and Android, so that our account is more secure and thus prevent our chats from being violated. How to do it? Here we explain it to you.

In this sense, you should know that to protect your WhatsApp account it is not necessary to install any third-party application that could endanger your personal information, since the platform itself has a tool such as a fingerprint.

Step by step to activate the fingerprint

A very effective method that you can easily activate in your WhatsApp account is fingerprint protection. Follow these steps:

1. Enter WhatsApp and click on the three-dot menu located in the upper right
2. Select the option that says settings
3. Go to the account section and then select privacy
4. Once there, locate the option that says fingerprint lock
5. You will need to turn on the fingerprint unlock switch
6. Confirm your fingerprint through the sensor of your phone.
7. Now, you have to choose whether you want the app to crash immediately, after one minute, or after thirty minutes.

There is also another alternative with which you can activate your fingerprint to lock and unlock applications, which is not a function of WhatsApp, but of your smartphone, whether it is an Android or iOS device.

1. Go to the settings menu of your phone
2. Tap on the security and privacy option
3. Now click on the section that says app lock
4. It will ask you to enter your security PIN code and then the list of applications installed on your smartphone will appear
5. Find WhatsApp and activate the switch that is on its right.
6. In this way, you can add security plus not only to WhatsApp, but also to any other application that you want to protect.

How to highlight important messages?

If it bothers you to be reviewing a WhatsApp conversation to find an important message, then you should know that there is a secret trick with which you can highlight everything you think is convenient and thus find it quickly.

You just have to keep your finger pressed on the WhatsApp message that you want to highlight until it is highlighted in blue. At that time, different options will be enabled at the top of the interface, one of them is the star icon.

WhatsApp: what is the meaning of ‘7w7’ and why do many users use it to flirt?

According to the specialized portal Trecebits, ‘7w7’ is one of the many expressions of the gamer world and informal chats. It’s a naughty new way of telling someone “I’d like to go somewhere with you” or suggesting something other than friendship.

To better understand the message, the use of 7w7 at the end of a sentence denotes flirtation or tenderness towards someone, since it is the new way that young people communicate in a WhatsApp chat or another messaging app.