WhatsApp just added a new security feature called Secret Code. An evolution of the Chat Lock feature that lets you password-protect sensitive WhatsApp Chats‚ Secret Code will hide your locked chats from view in a secret folder. This one becomes available only when you enter your Secret Code. That's a great privacy feature to have on messaging apps‚ especially on end-to-end encrypted apps like WhatsApp. That's not the feature I want Apple to steal for the iPhone's iMessage app. WhatsApp also has another layer of security that lets you lock the entire app. You can protect it with Face ID (or the phone's PIN)‚ which is an extra layer of security that iMessage doesn't have. I wouldn't mind if iMessage allowed me to lock down the entire app behind Face ID. Continue reading... The post I want iMessage to copy WhatsApp’s Face ID security appeared first on BGR. Trending Right Now: Was Amazon hacked? Here’s why users are panicking about Amazon Lockers Origin of life on Earth might not have come from the stars after all 5 hidden iOS 17.2 features coming to your iPhone next week