{"id":260211,"date":"2018-05-15T20:48:39","date_gmt":"2018-05-15T18:48:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=260211"},"modified":"2018-05-15T20:50:26","modified_gmt":"2018-05-15T18:50:26","slug":"whatsapp-launches-new-groups-features","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/260211-whatsapp-launches-new-groups-features.html","title":{"rendered":"WhatsApp launches new Groups features"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WhatsApp has launched <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.whatsapp.com\/10000640\/New-Features-for-Groups\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">new features<\/a><\/strong> for Groups on the platform.<\/p>\n<p>The company stated that chat groups are an important part of the WhatsApp experience, and it has decided to implement improvements to the functionality.<\/p>\n<p>The new features are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Group description<\/strong> &#8211; A short blurb found under group info that allows you to set the purpose, guidelines, or topics for the group.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Admin controls<\/strong> &#8211; In group settings, there&#8217;s now a control that allows admins to restrict who can change the group&#8217;s subject, icon, and description.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Group catch up<\/strong> &#8211; When you&#8217;ve been away from a group chat, quickly catch up on messages that mention or reply to you by tapping on a new @ button.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Participant<\/strong> <strong>search<\/strong> &#8211; Find anyone in a group by searching for participants on the group info page.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Admin\u00a0permissions<\/strong> &#8211; Admins can now remove admin permissions of other group participants, and group creators can no longer be removed from the group they started.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve also introduced protection so users can&#8217;t be repeatedly added to groups they&#8217;ve left,&#8221; said WhatsApp.<\/p>\n<p>These features are available for Android and iPhone users today.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/smartphones\/259497-black-dot-whatsapp-message-causes-messages-to-crash.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">\u201cBlack dot\u201d WhatsApp message causes Messages to crash<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WhatsApp has launched new features for Groups on the platform.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":168223,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[2594,50825],"class_list":["post-260211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-whatsapp","tag-whatsapp-groups"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260211"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=260211"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":260213,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260211\/revisions\/260213"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}