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The users of Facebook Messenger on iPhone are debuting And the messaging application has launched a new feature that had been around for some time in testing: use App Lock to privatize secret conversations or that you want to keep under protection. That is, use your biometric credentials such as your face or fingerprint to access protected chats. But beware, Facebook continues to add extra protections so that no stranger contacts you if you want to.But let's go step by step.
Facebook Messenger has the solution so you don't get cheated in chats
Protect your chats with password
Facebook has been testing the feature for some time App Lock of iOS in Facebook Messenger It consists of using your biometric qualities as the features of your face or the fingerprint, which you have already registered to access your mobile, but also within the application. Well, starting today this feature has started to arrive in Facebook Messenger for iPhone.
As usual, it may still take several days for the feature to reach all iPhone users, as the rollout is usually gradual across different markets. However, Facebook has already confirmed that is reaching out to everyone to be able to protect your chats and messages and make them private
With this, you will have to re-enter this biometric data, your face through FaceID, or your fingerprint through TouchID , to be able to enter the chat.Of course, you will have to activate it previously in the application settings, within the Privacy menu.
But what about Android mobile users? Facebook has announced that this feature, adapted to Google's operating system, will arrive soon. No official date at the moment.
More protection from strangers
But these are not the only measures announced by Facebook today for its messaging application. To enhance privacy control, each user will have the power to choose who can contact him or her through Facebook Messenger. In other words, not only being a contact on Facebook or having the contact on Messenger will give rise to a conversation or a call. More restrictive controls can now be applied
Facebook copies Instagram's formula for this function, where a battery of similar measures is already present.The idea is to create a previous inbox for those unknown people In this way, if you apply some restrictive measure, these users will not contact you directly. Their messages and calls will remain in a request space that you can accept or deny. With this they will not occupy a place within the application with the rest of the chats that are already running, and they will not bother you directly.
You can review this request box at any time to accept or reject the possibility of speaking with you or having them call or video call you. Nothing about having the same disposition and privileges as the rest of the contacts with whom you already have ongoing conversations.
Of course, for this you will have to go through the Facebook Messenger Settings and establish what those criteria will be to apply the filter of the request tray.If they are known contacts, if they are friends of friends, if you do not want to receive any messages and direct calls from anyone…
Facebook is also creating a feature to blurr photos sent to you by someone you don't know So, instead of bumping into With the message directly, you will be able to intuit the content of the photo and know if you want to respond or ignore said message and photo.
The only problem, for now, is that Facebook is only developing these controls or features. He hasn't even started testing them yet. However, as confirmed today, the tests would arrive soon. So for now we have to wait a little longer to have this protection.
