{"id":295782,"date":"2019-02-13T09:01:03","date_gmt":"2019-02-13T07:01:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=295782"},"modified":"2019-02-13T09:02:45","modified_gmt":"2019-02-13T07:02:45","slug":"whatsapp-working-on-group-invitation-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/295782-whatsapp-working-on-group-invitation-system.html","title":{"rendered":"WhatsApp working on group invitation system"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WhatsApp is developing a new group invitation feature which will allow users to automatically block others from automatically adding them to groups, <a href=\"https:\/\/wabetainfo.com\/whatsapp-is-developing-a-group-invitation-system\/' target=\"><strong>WABetaInfo<\/strong><\/a> reports.<\/p>\n<p>This privacy setting was previously available to WhatsApp Enterprises, and the company is now reportedly working on bringing it to consumers.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, users can be added to groups without their permission &#8211; but the new feature will allow users to change this in their privacy settings.<\/p>\n<p>From the Settings menu, users can select the Groups option to change whether they can automatically be added to groups.<\/p>\n<p>Users can choose between everyone, only their contacts, or nobody being able add them to groups without permission.<\/p>\n<p>If the admin of a group is unable to automatically add a WhatsApp user to a group, that user will receive an invitation to join the group which expires after 72 hours.<\/p>\n<p>The feature will be available in the next iOS update for users who joined the TestFlight beta programme.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/294624-after-more-than-10-years-in-development-wayland-still-hasnt-replaced-x-org.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">After more than 10 years in development Wayland still hasn\u2019t replaced X.org<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WhatsApp is developing a new group invitation feature which will allow users to automatically block invites.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341028,"featured_media":164658,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[57406,2594],"class_list":["post-295782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-group-invitations","tag-whatsapp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295782"}],"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\/341028"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295782"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":295794,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295782\/revisions\/295794"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/164658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}