WhatsApp

How to lock your WhatsApp chats on iPhone like a pro

Two iPhones on a gradient green background showing locked WhatsApp and locked WhatsApp Business

Once you set a passcode on your iPhone, it secures all your apps and data. However, if you hand over your unlocked iPhone to nosy people, it's possible they will peek inside WhatsApp to see what you’re up to! Thankfully, WhatsApp offers a built-in option to lock the app.

This tutorial shows you how to enable a password or Face ID/Touch ID lock on WhatsApp for iPhone to protect your chats. The process to lock WhatsApp Business is the same.

How to delete all old WhatsApp photos and videos from your iPhone

Delete old WhatsApp photos and videos from iPhone

WhatsApp saves the same pictures and videos in two places - inside the WhatsApp app and the iPhone Photos app. You can easily stop WhatsApp from saving images to your iPhone Photos app. But one copy still unknowingly remains inside the chat app.

If you have lots of one-to-one and group conversations on WhatsApp, these media files might be occupying several GBs of space.

In this handy tutorial, we show you how to delete old WhatsApp photos and videos from your iPhone to free space and keep things fast.