The Social Media giant Facebook now helps you to add an additional layer of safety when you are opening its Facebook Messenger app on an Apple iPhone or iPad. Now the app will be locked shortly after you close the app and then requiring you to make use of an authentication methodology like Face ID or Touch ID to open it again up. Meaning you could possibly unlock your smartphone and let a buddy borrow it, and that individual nonetheless wouldn’t be capable of entry your Messenger chats.

The function, which Facebook is asking App Lock, is a part of a lot of small adjustments coming to Messenger app centered on privateness and safety. The app can also be including a Privateness part to the app’s settings, giving customers a single location to manage options like App Lock and what customers they’ve blocked. App Lock is meant to return to Android in “the subsequent few months.”

Facebook additionally talked about some extra options that it plans to start testing quickly. It’s going to begin providing customers extra management over who can message them (the corporate didn’t supply a lot element on how this can work), and it’s going to begin blurring images from individuals who message you with out your approval so that you just don’t must open a probably troubling picture simply to view a new message and know if you wish to chat with somebody. The same function is already obtainable on Instagram and WhatsApp. Facebook didn’t say when this might begin arriving in its Messenger app.