WhatsApp Communities has gained a new way to organise events and the capability to reply to administrator announcements.
The instant messaging and voice-over-IP (VoIP) platform WhatsApp, owned by Meta, will reportedly begin rolling out the new features to Communities and groups in order to provide a greater toolset to help people stay organised.
WhatsApp Communities is a feature enabling users to add multiple WhatsApp groups into a single, larger community.
In Meta’s related feature article, it explains why it has chosen to release further WhatsApp Communities capabilities: “Since launching WhatsApp Communities, we’ve seen neighbourhoods, school associations, hobbyists and more use the feature to keep groups connected and organised.
“To help bring communities even closer together, we’re adding a new way for people to organise events on WhatsApp, and we’re introducing organised replies in Announcement Groups so members can respond to important updates from admins.”
New to WhatsApp Communities
From a birthday dinner to a virtual meeting, Meta believes that WhatsApp’s events have now made it easier to bring people together.
All WhatsApp users are able to create events for others to respond to, which also allows the entire group to know who will be attending.
Events can be located by guests via the group’s information page and those who have confirmed their attendance will receive a notification shortly before the event.
Initially, events will be available to groups within a Community and will subsequently be rolled out to all groups in the coming months, Meta has revealed.
Replies to Announcement Groups are also being made possible so that admins can receive feedback from their members while ensuring the groups remain a straightforward platform to catch up on everything going on within you Community.
To achieve this, replies are grouped together and minimised so you can see what has been said in context, while notifications are automatically muted for everyone.
WhatsApp In The News
This year has already seen a number of developments to the WhatsApp platform.
In March, WhatsApp launched an in-app indicator to let users know users which chats are encrypted.
WhatsApp’s update 2.24.6.11, available now to some Beta testers of the platform, includes the new capability, which comprises an indicator that displays “end-to-end encrypted” alongside a small lock icon.
Shortly before this came Meta’s announcement about the how WhatsApp’s encrypted messaging will work with third-party services.
Although accelerated by the European Union introducing its Digital Markets Act (DMA) for stricter regulation of designated messaging services, or digital “gatekeepers”, WhatsApp has been developing a solution enabling third-party interoperability for two years.
Third-party providers must sign an agreement to interoperate with Messenger and WhatsApp before it can be implemented. While the company encourages using WhatsApp’s Signal protocol for encryption, it will accept other protocols if they meet the same security standards.
Finally, in January, WhatsApp for Windows’ beta teased another enterprise-friendly feature for the messaging and collaboration platform — a capability to control input and output devices within the application.
Echoing similar capabilities in popular video conferencing platforms, such as Zoom and Google Meet, users can now choose their preferred speakers, microphone or camera for voice and video calls without having to leave WhatsApp.
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