{"id":484937,"date":"2023-03-23T11:46:23","date_gmt":"2023-03-23T09:46:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=484937"},"modified":"2023-03-23T15:36:37","modified_gmt":"2023-03-23T13:36:37","slug":"whatsapp-launches-new-groups-features-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/484937-whatsapp-launches-new-groups-features-2.html","title":{"rendered":"WhatsApp launches new groups features"},"content":{"rendered":"

Popular chat platform WhatsApp has rolled out two new features for Communities<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

WhatsApp said the updates were intended to make these large groups more manageable for admins and easier to navigate for all users.<\/p>\n

The first feature is a tool that gives Communities admins more control over who can join a group.<\/p>\n

“When an admin chooses to share their group’s invite link, or make their group joinable in a community, they now have more control over who can join,” WhatsApp said.<\/p>\n

WhatsApp will now show admins a list of participants who want to join the group, with the option to approve or reject their request.<\/p>\n

The second new feature will allow users to see which groups they have in common with other users.<\/p>\n

“Whether you’re trying to remember the name of a group you know you share with someone or you want to see the groups you’re both in, you can now easily search a contact’s name to see your groups in common,” WhatsApp said.<\/p>\n

WhatsApp said these two features would be rolled out globally over the coming weeks.<\/p>\n

The image below shows what the new group joining control and shared groups search features look like.<\/p>\n

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Now read: WhatsApp adds text detection feature for images<\/a><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

WhatsApp said the updates were intended to make these large groups more manageable for admins and easier to navigate for all users.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"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_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[35,54803,2594,74114,50825],"class_list":["post-484937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-headline","tag-messaging-apps","tag-whatsapp","tag-whatsapp-communities","tag-whatsapp-groups"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484937"}],"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=484937"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":484987,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484937\/revisions\/484987"}],"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=484937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}