TEMPO.CO, Jakarta – The use of increasingly sophisticated smart phones makes a lot of application short messages are mushrooming. The short message application allows smartphone users to send messages and engage in chats easily and efficiently. One of the popular short messaging applications is Telegram.
Telegram has various advantages over some other short messaging applications. Reporting from telegram.org, Telegram is able to send messages faster than other short messaging applications. In addition, Telegram allows users to create a chat group with 200,000 members. In terms of sending files, Telegram does not provide a size limit.
Apart from these features, Telegram also offers various features to protect user privacy. One of Telegram’s efforts to protect the privacy of its users is to use the feature lock chat. With this feature, Telegram users don’t have to worry if other people might be able to see it chat-his. Because, before opening a chat, there is a password or code that must be entered first, which is only known by the owner of the Telegram account. Reporting from makeuseof.com, here is how to activate the feature:
- Open the Telegram app on your phone.
- Tap the gear-shaped Settings icon in the lower right corner.
- Select Privacy and Security.
- Select Passcode & Face ID for supported phones. Phone models without Face ID support will display Passcode & Touch ID.
- Tap “Enable Passcode” and enter a numeric passcode to lock your Telegram app. You can tap the Passcode option if you want to switch between a four-digit or six-digit passcode.
- On the following screen, select the Autolock option and choose a duration between 1 minute, 5 minutes, 1 hour, or 5 hours. You can also disable or enable the feature by pressing the on/off toggle button for Face ID Unlock or Touch ID Unlock.
Once this feature is activated, Telegram users don’t have to worry anymore when their phone is in someone else’s hands. Because, if a chat to be unlocked, a password, sensor, or facial ID scan must be provided first. Telegram users don’t have to worry about privacy either chat-her again.
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