How do I lock my WhatsApp on my Samsung tablet?

Want to prevent prying eyes from looking at your mobile phone? By locking the opening of your applications, you will not take any risk of intrusion into your privacy. Locking down WhatsApp, which gives users the ability to share personal data, therefore seems like a relevant choice for some people. With the help of the various locking systems that exist, only you could have access to this application. In this sense we will offer you in this tutorial solutions to lock WhatsApp on your Samsung Galaxy Tab A6 . We will first see how to lock WhatsApp using your fingerprint. Then we will find out how to lock WhatsApp on your Samsung Galaxy Tab A6 using a Google Play Store application.

Lock WhatsApp on Samsung Galaxy Tab A6 Using Fingerprint

For better security of your chats, WhatsApp has recently developed a Lock system on Android using the digital print . To use this option, you must have:

• A mobile phone equipped with a fingerprint and operating at least under Android 6 or higher .
• Download the latest version of WhatsApp . To retrieve the latest version of WhatsApp on your Samsung Galaxy Tab A6 go to the Google Play Store application on your Android phone and make sure you are in the "  My games and apps »That your WhatsApp application does not need an update. If this is the case, click on "Update".

Activate the lock on Samsung Galaxy Tab A6

Once this lock feature is activated on your Samsung Galaxy Tab A6, you must use your fingerprint to gain access to WhatsApp. Otherwise, the application will be locked for whoever tries to use it. To activate this feature, find out what to do:

• Go to the WhatsApp application on your Android
• Click on the button " More option  »At the top right (the 3 vertical dots)
• Click on " Parameters  »
• Press on " Account  »Then on» Policy  »
• Click on " Fingerprint lock  »
• Slide button » Unlock by fingerprint  »To activate the feature
• Touch the fingerprint sensor your Samsung Galaxy Tab A6 to check your fingerprint and validate your choice

WhatsApp also allows you to customize and adjust lock options on your Samsung Galaxy Tab A6.

• After pressing the “Unlock by fingerprint” button, you can set the automatic time after which the fingerprint lock will be triggered; is " At once "," After 1 minute " , or " After 30 minutes " page (in French).
• You can also activate the button " Show content in notifications  »If you ever want to preview the content of messages in your Android notifications.

Disable lock on Samsung Galaxy Tab A6

If you ever get tired of this feature and ultimately want remove this lock feature on your Samsung Galaxy Tab A6, find out how to do it:

• Open your WhatsApp application
• Click on " More options  »
• Then select " Parameters  "Then" Account  "And" Policy  »
• Access the functionality Fingerprint lock  »
• Disable the button " Unlock with fingerprint  »

Now you know how to lock your WhatsApp app on your Android phone by fingerprint. However, if this option does not work for several reasons, another equally simple alternative is available to you as we will see in this next section.

Lock WhatsApp on your Samsung Galaxy Tab A6 using a Google Play Store application

Photos, videos, messages, audio ... To be sure that your personal data remains safe, you can lock the WhatsApp application on your Samsung Galaxy Tab A6 using certain applications download from Google Play Store . These work by adding protection to your application by mot de passe , code, diagram ou fingerprints . There are many, that said we will present in this article one of the most used and complete to lock your WhatsApp on your Android phone.

If you ever want hide photos or videos on your Samsung Galaxy Tab A6, discover our different ways of doing things on the subject in our article.

Download the application AppLock to lock WhatsApp on your Samsung Galaxy Tab A6. This application acts like a lock that you paste on WhatsApp to protect your sensitive data with your choice of password, pattern, code or fingerprints. Its advantage is that it can lock just about any application on your Android (WhatsApp, Snapchat, Gallery, SMS, Gmail, Facebook, Instagram etc). To install the AppLock application and activate it on WhatsApp, discover the procedure:

• Download the application AppLock on Google Play Store
• Start the application and set a lock pattern . This pattern will be requested each time you want to unlock an application. We recommend that you do not do the same as the one to unlock your Samsung Galaxy Tab A6. You can also replace it later with a mot de passe or an queues .
• Once in the app AppLock , the latter presents all the applications installed on your mobile.
• To lock WhatsApp, click on one of the open gray padlocks in front of the application. It turns blue and closes.
• Close the app and open WhatsApp. In principle, you are asked to complete your diagram , or your mot de passe .

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