How to protect your WhatsApp account with fingerprint

There are several ways to protect your WhatsApp conversations from prying eyes. Of course, many of them depend on third-party applications or complex security systems. Now WhatsApp launches the possibility of protecting your account under a fingerprint. So, even if they enter your mobile while you sleep due to facial recognition, they will need your finger to be able to read your conversations.

• It is enough to have the WhatsApp application for Android updated to its latest version.Head over to the Google Play Store and download any available updates. The first stable version of WhatsApp to have this feature is 2.19.308, although beta tester users have been enjoying it for some time now. Another option, if no update has appeared, is to download it from APKmirror, an application repository where all new versions are religiously posted as soon as they are released somewhere in the world. Of course, in the latter case you will not have the protections and security of Google Play Store.
• After that, open WhatsApp and go to the three dots in the upper right corner. In the dropdown move to the Settings menu.
• Within the screen that appears, enter Privacy, and scroll down to the bottom. This is where the Fingerprint Lock function is now located. Click on it to enter its configuration screen.
• The screen that appears indicates that you must use your finger to access WhatsApp. When activated, WhatsApp will request that you touch the fingerprint sensor to activate this function. And that's it, you will have protected your WhatsApp account.

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WhatsApp has thought of everything, and it doesn't want to have you pressing the fingerprint reader every two by three when you want to check your WhatsApp chats. Therefore, once you activate this function, it gives you different options to activate it automatically That is, so that the security barrier appears after several minutes, and not so that you always have to unlock your account with your fingerprint.

• Immediately: You can choose to activate the lock immediately, so you will always have to use your fingerprint when entering WhatsApp.
• After 1 minute: if constantly unlocking your phone makes you lazy, you can choose this option, with which you will not have to use your fingerprint shortly after using WhatsApp for the last time.
• After 30 minutes: This is the most relaxed option. You will only have to use your fingerprint once every half hour, or after half an hour of using the messages application, to reread any recent sending.

In addition to this, and to give privacy an extra twist, you can choose what can be seen in notifications of new messages. If you want neither on the lock screen nor outside of WhatsApp to see what or who has written to you, you can deactivate the option that appears a little further down From this This way you will further protect your privacy.Of course, you will have to access WhatsApp to see who has written to you and read the message.

It is clear, then, that privacy has become an important objective for WhatsApp. This feature is now available for all Android platform users, so you can stop using other third-party resources to protect this app. It is not the most infallible option to protect your WhatsApp account, but it is safer than the facial recognition of your mobile. Until we can protect our account with a secret number code, it's the best option we have as users.