WhatsApp gives group administrators a new “superpower”

WhatsApp’s short -term plans aim to give more power group managers. Currently, they can kick participants, assign which other users to share the role with, or choose who can enter the chat. WhatsApp announced that today will allow you to delete any message from the conversations.

The properties of group administrators, who are currently able to manage chats and add or delete contacts, will have the power delete any message for all participants in the next WhatsApp update.

However, the deleted message will leave a small trace, as it will be replaced by a text warning other users that the administrator has deleted it. Therefore, performance will be similar to private chats.

“All admins will be able to remove erroneous or problematic messages from chats to help keep groups safe and respectful,” said Jyoti Sood, WhatsApp product manager.

This notification, as reported by the expert portal WABetaInfo, will take effect with the release of version 2.22.11.4 of WhatsApp for Android beta program.

The portal also remembers that the technology company works with the extension of time where a message can be deleted for all participants in a group chat, with options of 12 hours and two days.

This new WhatsApp feature will give more power to group administrators, but at the same time, will limit the freedom of the participants from the same group. Time will tell if this is really a positive or negative change for the community of app users.

The other news

Among the next new features of the platform, there are also audio calls of up to 32 people “with a completely new design” and the possibility of sharing larger files.

While the limit is currently 100MB, the company announced that it will soon allow users to send photos, videos or documents up to 2GB.

In addition, Zuckerberg himself announced in a Facebook post that reactions to WhatsApp messages are now available to users. Using this function, which is already used by other platforms such as Telegram, Slack, Facebook Messenger, it will allow the user to react to any message with an emoticon.

The emoticons available are the thumbs up, the heart, the crying face of laughter, the surprised face, the sad face and the hands together in gratitude. The latter was added to “help spread gratitude and appreciation”, as Zuckerberg reported, as well as ensuring that “many expressions are coming soon”.

WhatsApp also makes a feature called “communities”, which will allow administrators to combine multiple groups into one. To give an example: this new option will make life easier for a school principal, as he or she will be able to share the most important updates with all parents, and will be able to create separate groups for specific classes, extracurricular activities. activity or needs of the volunteer.

With information from La Vanguardia.

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