WhatsApp blog announced a series of features rolling out on the service. This includes expanding the group chat sizes.
WhatsApp users will be able to add up to 512 people to a group. Although the feature is not widely available yet, it is slowly trickling to users, according to Android Police.
It is still far from the 200,000 participant limit available to Telegram users through supergroups, but it is a welcome improvement.
WhatsApp is also currently working on another way to manage several group chats efficiently, and that is through Communities. A community will appear as a new tab within the app, just like Calls and Status.
It will also contain several groups, allowing admins to send announcements and updates to all participants at once.
The latest blog post reiterated Meta’s commitment to ensuring the feature begins arriving for users soon, following a positive reception after April’s announcement, according to iMore.
WhatsApp also added two new features already available worldwide: the reactions and increased file sharing size limit.
For the increased file sharing size limit, users will now be able to send files up to 2GB in size at once on WhatsApp, which is a massive jump from the previous limit of 100MB.
WhatsApp also posted how to use the feature in its FAQ on the website.
To use the feature, just long-press on a message and choose one of the displayed emojis. Just like Instagram, users can change their reactions to a different one by long-pressing the same messages and changing the emoji or just clicking on the same one to remove it.
