What is Flo Secret Chats?

Flo Secret Chats is a friendly and welcoming space where you can connect with millions of other members like you, support each other, and discuss female health. It’s a great space to share personal stories and talk with others about shared experiences.

You can access it by tapping the “Secret Chats” tab at the bottom of the Flo app. When you sign up to use Flo, you’ll automatically be assigned a random avatar. That’s so you don’t need a photo of yourself to post in Secret Chats, keeping your identity hidden. You can always change your avatar by opening Menu (your avatar) > Edit info > Select profile picture.

Flo Secret Chats contains posts about health and lifestyle topics written by the Flo team to facilitate conversation for Secret Chats members and posts created by other Flo members. You can create a post by tapping the “New post” button at the bottom of the screen. Then, choose an appropriate category for your post. Once posted, it’ll be visible to other users, but your identity is kept hidden. To remove a post, tap on the three dots in the top right corner, then Delete post > Delete.

Each post has comment filters such as Top, Newest, My, and Expert (if an expert comment is present). You can write or delete your comments, reply to other members’ comments, and like or report comments. The majority of posts also allow picture sharing.

Posts are combined into Categories. The Flo Secret Chats feed is personalized based on Categories you’ve liked and what posts other Flo members liked, so relevant and popular content is displayed based on your interactions and community opinion. You can customize your feed by following or blocking certain Categories in the Interests menu or the group/post itself. Liking a post won’t add it to the Following tab, but liking a Category will. You can also bookmark a Flo post.

Members younger than 18 see different groups and posts from those available to members over 18. Equally, members over 18 don’t have access to the content available to members younger than 18. The content and comments are always kept completely separate from each other, with no interaction between members younger than 18 and older than 18.

When someone replies to you or writes a comment in a thread or post you started, you’ll receive a push notification, and a badge will appear in Notifications (accessed via the bell icon). Push notifications can be managed in Menu (your avatar) > Reminders > Secret Chat notifications. If you disable notifications here, you won’t receive push notifications anymore but can still access them in the Notifications (bell icon). Tap the bell icon > Swipe left on the notification > Unfollow to stop receiving notifications from a certain thread or post.

All comments and posts in Secret Chats are pre-moderated, so your comment will be posted after it passes the moderation process. Comments and posts are moderated according to the Secret Chats rules. If you would like to share a picture, there are a number of additional rules to follow so you don’t share personally identifiable information. If a comment breaks the rules, it will be deleted. And a member who regularly breaks the rules might be banned.

Flo Secret Chats is currently available in English and Portuguese.