No one would like other people to read their conversations. WhatsAppFor this reason, the aforementioned platform added end-to-end encryption, a privacy tool so that only you and the person you are chatting with are the only ones capable of reading, listening or seeing everything that is sent, not even the Meta application will have access to this information. Although there is a fingerprint to protect the content of your account, the notifications of messages and calls can still be seen through the lock screen of your Android phone, do you want to avoid it? It is something that from Depor we will teach you immediately. Take note.
It’s easier for someone to read your messages than WhatsApp with the mobile device unlocked, but Android is configured by default so that notifications also appear even with the locked screen. It is very easy to disable this function, best of all, you do not need to download applications or programs from external sites.
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The guide to prevent WhatsApp notifications from appearing on the lock screen
- First, enter the “Settings” of your phone Androidyou locate it with the icon of a cogwheel or gear.
- Now, click on the section that says “Notifications”.
- Depending on the brand of your cell phone, two options will appear: “Summary” and “Detailed”, choose the first (recommended).
- Just below, click on the section called “Included applications”.
- Turn off the switch WhatsApp.
- Finally, go back to keep the changes and now the notifications will no longer appear on the lock screen of the cell phone.
- If you want to revert the settings made, just turn the switch back on.
- It’s quite simple and you don’t have to be an expert.
- The first thing will be to enter WhatsApp.
- Then go to any conversation and write a text in a friend’s conversation.
- At that moment, what you should do is select all or part of the message.
- At that moment you will see that the “Copy” option appears, but next to it it says “Format”.
- Click on it and it will appear if you want that message to appear in Bold, Italics, Strikethrough or Monosyllable.
- Choose the one you want and at that moment that option will be added or a format will be provided to your WhatsApp message.
- This hidden menu only appears at the moment in iPhone terminals.
- In the case of Androids you must place the special symbols as you have always done.
Why should you clear the WhatsApp cache?
- First of all clear the cache of WhatsApp It will serve to free up some space on your mobile device. Many times this tends to weigh more than 1 GB.
- Likewise, deleting the app’s cache will also prevent the application from suffering errors or certain bugs.
- In the same way, if you wish to do so, you will also delete certain junk files that have only been used to update or install WhatsApp.
- It should be noted that by clearing the cache you will not be deleting documents, much less photos, videos or chats.
- It also does not serve to log out of the quick messaging app. If you want to do so, you must click on “force close”.