WhatsApp New Feature To Manage Who Can Add Members To Communities – News18

The well-liked on the spot messaging platform WhatsApp is reportedly rolling out a function to handle who can add members to communities. With this function, the Meta-owned app aimed to supply group admins with extra management over their communities by providing new options to handle permissions.

“Thanks to the latest WhatsApp beta for Android 2.23.18.20 update, which is available on the Google Play Store, WhatsApp is now rolling out an additional option for community admins,” WABetaInfo, reported.

As per the screenshot shared by WABetaInfo, a new community setting is available and it allows community admins to decide who can add members to the community. The default option restricts this action to community admins, providing them with the exclusive ability to directly add members.

However, there may be certain situations where community admins wish to provide the same opportunity for anyone to add members directly. In such cases, they can select the “everyone” possibility, the report stated.

The report suggested that this feature is a significant enhancement for community admins, providing them with greater flexibility and control over their groups and other community members.

“It is an additional layer of control, allowing community admins to choose who can add members directly. It’s very important to note that everyone can still add members to the community if they have a valid community invite link generated by the community admin,” WABetaInfo stated.

This signifies that the brand new possibility solely permits group admins to handle who can manually add new members to the group, even with out requiring a group invite hyperlink.

The skill to manage who can add members to group teams is at the moment accessible to pick beta testers who set up the most recent WhatsApp beta updates on Android by way of the Google Play Store. It is rolling out to much more individuals over the approaching days, the report stated.