WhatsApp is one of the most reputed messaging apps worldwide. It always offers exciting updating features for users. So from past months WhatsApp has been working to bring new features and rolled out updated versions for Android and iOS systems. Mark Zuckerberg has announced that WhatsApp users can use community creation features rolled out for users today. Over the next few months, it will be accessible for users globally. This messaging app provides access to disabled view messages on desktops and tablet communities and also gives various useful features for group participants.
WhatsApp now allows users to have structured group discussions. Features include helpful admin control options, sub-group merging, and connectivity of 32 video or voice calls at a time. Communities like a neighborhood, apartment communities, schools, and workplaces can now join multiple groups under one community to establish accessible conversations on WhatsApp. In one community, you can add 1024 people so it eliminates the need to create several small groups. According to WhatsApp, the community admin can remove or unlink any group member who does not follow the community rules. You can now easily switch to different groups and leave any group by only informing respective group admins. Another new update in the system is in-chat polls by WhatsApp, which allow poll creators to give 12 different options. This feature helps group members to vote on any important topic. You can now also make a video call with 32 people at one time which may turn out to be a useful feature for organizations to conduct meetings with several people.
These new community features allow group creators to start a group with 512 members, which is also a great option for schools, colleges, and business sectors. To get started with the new community feature, you can tap on the top of your chats on Android devices and at the bottom of iOS through which you can start a new community and make a community with existing groups. WhatsApp provides information that “they have been working with 50 organizations in 15 countries,” which helps them strengthen community features on WhatsApp.
Along with sharing emoji reactions, you can now transfer large files of sizes up to 2GB within groups with an end-to-end encryption facility. There is also an admin delete option that helps group admins delete inappropriate messages or media on the group. WhatsApp not only introduces several exciting features to the system but also gives privacy assurance to all users. According to some reports, WhatsApp is working to bring some additional message-editing features to iOS systems. Recently, this messaging platform also allows users to share videos, photos, and other media content along with captions.
Voice messages made an easy and expressive conversation over this messaging platform, so it also furnished voice messages with some interesting settings. WhatsApp gives a Draft Preview facility to voice messages, enabling you to hear a message before sending it to another user. Other settings, like disappearing messages and viewing once, assist users in controlling them more effortlessly.
We occasionally could experience issues with data and chat transferring when switching phones. The new import capability in WhatsApp also solves this problem. You can use this function to move your chat history from Android to iPhone with end-to-end encrypted backups from WhatsApp. After introducing these new capabilities, WhatsApp may face competition from apps like Telegram and Signal as well as other online community platforms.
With end-to-end encryptions and disappearing messaging capabilities, WhatsApp increases security levels. Effective privacy protection layers are added to these new capabilities to improve privacy policies and give users more control over the messages and conversations they see in community groups. These privacy safeguards include leaving a group quietly by notifying the admins. To maintain your privacy online, you may control who can view your online or offline presence while using the app. Furthermore, there is a solution to prevent screenshots from being taken from digital media by using the view-once feature. According to WhatsApp, another feature of the screenshot-blocking tool is now under testing and will soon be available to all users.
So these are some interesting features of the newly released features of WhatsApp, which you can use to strengthen your community related to educational institutions, organizations, and neighboring communities to organize work more efficiently. The WhatsApp team also clarified that they would come up with many amazing features soon till they are waiting for reviews and feedback from their users for these updated features.
