WhatsApp Group Admins get a new setting to control who sends messages: A look at all the new features

WhatsApp Group Admins can now control who can send messages on groups. Here is an overview of all the new settings for group administrators that WhatsApp recently deployed.

WhatsApp added new features to all groups, especially for group administrators to make it easier to control conversations. in law. The latest WhatsApp feature for group administrators allows them to restrict authorized users to send messages to the entire group. This is an important parameter, which is being rolled out for iOS and Android users of the popular email application. Here's an overview of all the new features related to WhatsApp groups and group administrators

New WhatsApp Features for Group Administrators: Control Messages

"Today, we are launching a new group setting where only administrators can send messages.to a group.One of the ways people use groups is to receive important announcements and information, including parents and teachers in schools, community centers and nonprofit organizations. "We introduced this new setting so that administrators could have better tools for these use cases," WhatsApp said in a blog post. This unidirectional broadcast feature is compared to another similar on the Telegram's competitive email application.

WhatsApp users who are administrators of a group can access this feature by tapping Group Settings> Send Messages and choosing from two options: All Participants and only Administrators. The Group Settings option is available when you tap the group name to find more details about the participants, the group description, and so on. If the administrator selects "All Participants", all members of a group can send messages. The "Only Admins" feature will limit email to only group administrators. This means that regular users in the group will not be able to respond to messages, and the group will become a one-way broadcast.

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For example, if a group has started a school to make key announcements for parents, it can limit the option of sending messages to only administrators, in this case the teachers and the school administration. Thus, the group will be limited to ads only, rather than messages from all and important alerts getting lost in long conversations. Of course, this also means that parents can not raise issues in such a group and may need another group.

Currently, there is no option to ensure that some members of the group who are not admins can also send messages. WhatsApp limits the options to all members or only to administrators. WhatsApp indicates that this setting is deployed to all users worldwide on the latest supported versions of the application. Users will need to update their iOS, Android app from the corresponding app store in order to get the new feature.

WhatsApp Deployed More Controls for Administrators . (Image Source: Reuters)

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WhatsApp Group: More Admin Controls [19659007] In the group settings, there is a new control option, which allows administrators to limit who can change the object, icon, and group description. The setting also allows users to edit the group's administrators and remove some as administrators without removing them from the group, which was not possible before.

Administrators can access the group settings. setting. Group creators can no longer be removed from the group they started. More importantly, users can no longer be added multiple times to groups that they left earlier.

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WhatsApp Groups: Add Feature Description

WhatsApp deployed this feature earlier this year and it allows administrators other participants to add a description to the group discussions. Suppose that there are several groups of offices, each for a separate purpose, and then the administrator can add the group description to the bottom of the name for clarity. WhatsApp users must press the name of the group where they would like to add a description.

Next, tap the "Group Info" section, followed by the "Description" section just below the group name and add the desired description. When a new person joins a group, the description will appear at the top of the chat, says WhatsApp. Administrators can restrict who can add descriptions, whether all participants or only those who are designated as administrators.

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