A screenshot showing the feature reveals that WhatsApp will automatically mute groups with more than 256 participants and present a prompt within the group to notify them of the action.<\/p>\n
Users will then be able to choose whether to unmute the group or accept the setting as is.<\/p>\n
The screenshot below from WABetaInfo shows what the prompt looks like in the preview.<\/p>\n
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<\/a>Prompt informing users of groups larger than 256 members of automatic notification muting<\/p><\/div>\n
The feature is likely the result of WhatsApp realising the sheer number of notifications from larger groups could become a big annoyance for some users.<\/p>\n
Earlier this year, it increased the maximum number of members that can be added to a group from 256 to 512.<\/p>\n
Around two weeks ago, the platform again doubled<\/strong><\/a> that number on the beta versions of its Android and iOS app to 1,024.<\/p>\n The large group sizes will allow WhatsApp to better contend with rival platforms like Telegram regarding community or event chats.<\/p>\n In addition to the new group chat capabilities, WhatsApp has rolled out an avatar feature<\/strong><\/a> to certain users of its Android app.<\/p>\n These users will see the feature available under their WhatsApp settings page.<\/p>\n Once created, they can send stickers to their contacts featuring their avatar with various emotions or performing certain actions, similar to Snapchat. Users can also set the avatar as a profile picture.<\/p>\n The screenshot below shows what the avatar creation process and stickers look like in the beta.<\/p>\n WhatsApp Avatar feature in Android beta shows what appears to be an avatar of Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg<\/p><\/div>\n Meta Platforms-owned WhatsApp is working on several changes to groups, and testing avatars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341042,"featured_media":465579,"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_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17934],"tags":[1767,2594,74114,50825],"class_list":["post-465553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-smartphones","tag-mark-zuckerberg","tag-whatsapp","tag-whatsapp-communities","tag-whatsapp-groups"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465553"}],"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\/341042"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=465553"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":465585,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465553\/revisions\/465585"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/465579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=465553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Taking a cue from Snapchat<\/h2>\n
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\nNow read: Mark Zuckerberg roasts Apple\u2019s iMessage \u2014 punts superior WhatsApp privacy and security<\/a><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"