According to the latest update, WhatsApp has come up with new exciting features for its users. Mark Zuckerberg has announced some major features of the community discussion over groups. He claims that these new capabilities give emerging communities the ability to build stronger groups with a variety of fresh options, sub-groups, and in-chat polls. Larger group conversations on WhatsApp are primarily supported by these enhanced capabilities. Thus, these new features will enable new communities to create better groups. WhatsApp announced that “they are excited to share this update of communities’ discussion, which will be available to users over the next few months.” These structured features are primarily made to assist businesses, educational institutions, and local communities in connecting various group chats under one umbrella.
To get access to this feature, you can tap on the new community tab at the top of chats on Android and at the bottom in iOS systems, which will help you to experience the creation of new groups or discussions in existing groups. Once you join a community, you can easily switch between available groups to get important updates. Only admins will be able to announce important information to everyone in the community. These admins also can decouple other groups and particular members from the community.
At the same time, WhatsApp also launched three more amazing and useful features for users that help to create in-chat polls on groups, 32-person video calls, and creating groups with up to 1024 members. In the same way as using emoji reactions, users can share large files, and also admin delete facilities can be used on the community platforms. The team of WhatsApp said that they have been working with 50 organizations in 15 countries to meet the needs of different communities globally.
WhatsApp is a phone-number-based application, meaning users will only join those community groups discussion with which they already have familiarity. So to protect users’ privacy, WhatsApp assured its users that these new features are with more privacy, protection, and control. The team clarified that privacy policy features are in the DNA of WhatsApp, so they will never stop to control and protecting the personal conversations, messaging, and video calling of users. So to control this privacy policy WhatsApp adds layers of security with end-to-end encryptions and disappearing messaging features. Enhancing these new features brings more exciting privacy protection layers to give more control over the messages and discussions of community groups. These privacy layers include leaving the group silently by giving notifications to admins. You can also choose who can see you online to control your privacy. And there is already an incredible way to protect shared digital media by viewing one feature, which will come up with screenshot blocking. This screenshot-blocking feature is under testing, and it will also roll out for users soon, according to WhatsApp.
Along with these most useful and exciting privacy features, WhatsApp also comes up with more provoking features like larger file sharing and organization of groups with 512 people at a time. In addition, you can send files of 2GB size at a time to one another. Another feature in the list is voice calling update, which includes larger voice calls for up to 32 people with one tap. And in respect to voice calls, there is also a surprising update that you can hear your voice message before you will send it to another user. A disappearing messaging feature is also introduced with multiple duration options, which will also be useful for users.
Sometimes while changing phones, we may face the trouble of data and chat transferring. This problem is also solved with WhatsApp’s new import feature. Using this feature, you are able to transfer your chat history from your Android to your iPhone, which is provided with end-to-end encrypted backups by WhatsApp. After launching these new features WhatsApp could challenge other apps like Telegram and Signal and also other online community platforms.
So these are some engrossing updates about the features of WhatsApp. This new community discussion features surely help larger organizations and groups for easy work. Larger organizations like schools, enterprises, and apartment community groups will undoubtedly benefit from the new community discussion tools for easier collaboration. WhatsApp said they have many more plans for adding new features over the coming months. For the time being, they are eager to hear feedback from more users around the globe.