Here’s how to hide WhatsApp chats on Android without archiving

Want to hide your WhatsApp chats without using the archive feature? If so, Gadinsider has compiled a step-by-step guide to do it easily on your Android phone.

WhatsApp users sometimes want to hide a specific chat without deleting them. While the popular messaging platform provides the archive feature, when a chat is archived, it gets hidden with users not being able to receive any notification even when a new message is sent from that particular chat.

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Hide WhatsApp chats on Android

1. Firstly, open WhatsApp on your Android phone.
2. Now, select the chat you want to hide.
3. Then, tap on the three dots icon on the top right corner of your screen.
4. Here, select ‘Fingerprint Lock.‘
5. You will see an option showing ‘Keep this chat locked and hidden.‘
6. Next, tap on ‘Continue‘ to lock the selected chat and choose one of the options displayed to decide how much time the app should be locked.

Notably, when chats are locked, notifications and contacts will be hidden, with the screen showing 1 new message. However, to make the locked chats unblock, tap on the three-dot icon to unblock it and you will start receiving messages from that chat again.