Soon you will be able to leave groups in WhatsApp silently
If you are a user of WhatsApp or any other chat application, you must be in more than one group, there is that group that your friend added you to without asking you, and another group that was opened to work on that project that you have already finished, and certainly do not forget Batch groups, these are all some of the groups we find ourselves in and crowd our application window, without the possibility of getting out of it; Because that would be embarrassing because a message pops up informing everyone that ” so and so has left the group! “
In fact, this is not only in WhatsApp, but in all other chat applications, as it is a custom agreed upon by almost everyone, as it is a birthright of all members of the group to be aware of who joins or leaves it.
But it is clear that WhatsApp will soon break this custom, to be the first application that adds an amendment to the way to leave WhatsApp groups, as according to the latest reports; Meta’s chat application is testing the ability to leave silently without informing the rest of the members, which was first noticed in a blog .
Details are still vague about how this new feature works, but from the screenshot attached above which was taken from the web version of WhatsApp, it is clear that only group admins will be aware of your departure from it, and we expect this to be done by sending the same notification that we are used to With the exception of members of it. Which is logical because it is obvious that the group administrators have the right to know the updates about those groups they manage, and also the user has the right to leave any group without “exposing it on satellite channels”, so we believe that this is the ideal solution that takes into account the rights of both parties, the administrator and the member!
We do not know when this feature will be rolled out to users, but what we do know is that it is currently under development on the web version of the platform, to be rolled out in an update soon for Android and iOS users, and we do not expect it to take a long time to reach the public.
This may be the first feature that WhatsApp adds without being inspired by Telegram , but in fact it is an addition that will distinguish it from its fierce competitor.
Other upcoming features of WhatsApp for Groups
“Silent leaving groups in WhatsApp” is not the only feature we are waiting for, as Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg announced on April 14 through his official account on Facebook a number of other features coming to the WhatsApp application targeting group management across the platform, which he described as huge developments, all of which remain under development so far.
The first of these “developments” as described by Zuckerberg is the addition of a new window within the application called ” communities “, which will allow us to organize our conversations and separate groups from friends’ chat, and not only that, but we will be able to gather more than one chat group within one section, for example Example If you are involved in groups related to different subjects within your university, you can group them into one section dedicated to your university.
We also believe that this feature will allow people to be added to entire communities, as shown in the attached image, which is an official design from the company for the shape of the next feature – it may differ when the final version -, which means that WhatsApp may provide a simple experience for a small social network that will allow us to communicate with others Better and not limited to registered names only.
In addition, Zuckerberg announced other upcoming features as well, most notably the interactions response, which has already reached everyone, and the ability to share large files – up to 2 GB – which reached some users in Argentina. In addition to increasing the number of participants in conference calls to 32 participants; However, the number may vary depending on the device used. Group admins will also be able to completely delete any messages, in order to improve content management as well as increase the number of people that can be in groups (the app allows 256 people at the time of writing).
