WhatsApp Increases Group Capacity, Starts Testing

WhatsApp the messaging app has been working and updating its feature for better use. WhatsApp increases group capacity for a single group chat. The previous limit was 512 and now it is turning into 1024 members. This Meta-owned instant messaging and voice-over-IP service has started to test larger groups with some users on the beta channel.

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WhatsApp Increases Group Capacity

This service also increased the group chat limit previously. It changed from 256 to 512 in June. It even enabled sending larger files (up to 2GB) and emoji reactions for messages. Now, it is working on an undo option for deleted messages. Along with the edit option for messages that have already been sent.

WhatsApp increases group capacity, seen by beta testers on the feature tracker WABetaInfo. It is the second time this year that the participant limit for group chats is doubled. Earlier this increase in participants entered beta testing for some users. It rolled out in June.

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Now, this ability to add 1024 users will be announced for all the WhatsApp Beta users. Both on Android and iOS through the app update. As per the feature tracker, this update will come by this week.

WABetaInfo suggested that it will also announce the feature to let admins have better control over large group chats. That includes the introduction of a pending participants section, allowing the admins to view and manage user requests to join the group. The admins can approve them at any time. Also, an approval system will enable admins to give other users access to add new participants to the group.

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Though there has been no official announcement regarding the same. Nothing is known about the development, or no timeline is the release of the new limits that are tested along with some beta users.

Telegram Joins The Run

However, the rival app Telegram has also enabled the group chats to have a maximum of 2 lakh participants. But even Telegram chats are not protected by end-to-end encryption. That suggests that they are less secure than WhatsApp groups.

As per the report by PhoneArena, this new move of WhatsApp is the new plan of the Meta-owned services to bring more users to the group chat, mostly for business.

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Though WhatsApp increases group capacity is not official yet. The size of group chats on the messaging service is not known. But it is worth knowing that the limit might be increased or decreased in the course of development even before its release for all users in the future.