WhatsApp rolls out new features for group chats, events, calls, and channels

WhatsApp regularly introduces new features and updates, making it easy to overlook some of the useful tools available. To help you stay updated, we’ll be sharing regular summaries of the latest enhancements, settings, and functionalities. In today’s roundup, we’re highlighting recent additions designed to enhance your chats, calls, and overall Channels experience.

Hyderabad: WhatsApp has come up with a new set of updating features, tossing in some extra goodness for the users. This is in private messaging, in calls, and also in their channels. Group chat now enables users to check online members through a real-time indicators below the name of the group. In addition to this, notification management receives a more robust enhancement in the way “Notify for” would allow users to choose between all the messages or “highlights” like mentions and replies.

Much improvement has happened to event creation. Users will be able to create events in group chats now also within 1:1 chats. Other new features include RSVP options where the user can maybe add a plus one, specify an end time, and pin an event in the chat window.

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Reactions have also become more interactive, so now they just need to press existing reactions, and they can quickly follow up with a response to others. For iPhone users, one can go ahead to scan and send any documents directly using the app, and even use WhatsApp as their default message and call application.

In the Calls tab, iPhone users can pinch the screen for zooming during video calls, and another great new functionality allows adding more participants to an active 1:1 call from the chat thread. Technical improvements are all working behind the scenes for better and higher quality video calls.

“Channel admins also get video notes, voice messages transcriptions, and scannable QR codes that make it easier to grow one’s audience.”