WhatsApp unveils communities feature to organise group chats


A new WhatsApp tool called Community will allow users to organise different group chats together under a single main topic, for example, their children’s school or the street they live on. — dpa

LONDON: WhatsApp has unveiled a feature called Communities, which it says will enable users to place several group chats together under one topic and share updates more effectively.

The Meta-owned messaging app said it would begin rolling out the feature slowly and as a test, but Meta boss Mark Zuckerberg said the change was an “important evolution” for WhatsApp.

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