The popular WhatsApp groups will now have a new function that promises to “revolutionize” the use of the messaging application.
Meta, the company that owns WhatsApp, as well as social networks Facebook and Instagram announced this Thursday in a statement that it will allow the creation of “Communities” on their platform. This means that users will be able to connect several groups under the same “umbrella”.
“With Communities, our goal is to raise the level of how organizations communicate with a level of privacy and security that it is not found anywhere else,” the company said in a press release.
“Currently available alternatives require applications or software companies to trust a copy of their messages, and we believe they deserve the higher level of security provided by end-to-end encryption,” they added. .
“Today we present Communities in WhatsApp, an improvement in groups by allowing the creation of subgroups, several conversation threads and notifications by notices”, announced in a short video on Facebook Mark Zuckerberg, the executive director of Meta.
How do Communities work?
According to the Meta release, enabling the new feature is very simple .
The user only has to touch a new tab that will appear in the top of chats on Android and bottom on iOS systems. From there you can create a supergroup from scratch or unify several groups that you are already a part of.
The company clarified that the function is not yet available to all users, but said that “soon” it will be possible to be used “all over the world”.
In the Community, there will be a group in which the administrator can send messages that can be read by all its members.
However, the participants they only have the ability to chat in subgroups that, although they can create, must be approved by the “umbrella” administrator.
Administrators will also have the “power” to delete messages sent by anyone who is part of the Community.
They will also be able to see the phone numbers of all the people included, although not l The participants, who will only have visibility of the contacts that are part of the subgroups they have joined.
To join someone to a Community, the person in charge must send them a link that will generate the same application.
Other changes
Meta released this Thursday other new features that will complement the Communities function.
Users will have the ability to create polls in chats. In addition, they will be able to make video calls with up to 32 people and the number increases of participants in their groups to 32, a number much higher than the restriction of 32 participants I had until recently.
WhatsApp’s rivals, including Telegram and Discord, allow thousands of members.
Meta has promised that it will announce more changes to the app in the coming months.
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