WhatsApp has begun to deploy the ability to automatically mute group conversations when they exceed a certain number of participants, with the aim of reducing noise in them.
The tech company turned on Communities earlier this month, a first that was accompanied by an update for groups, which now support up to 1,024 participants.
WhatsApp works on mute function
Being able to be so crowded, the notifications of the actions of the members of a group conversation can generate too much noise, and not make it easy to follow what is in it. For this reason, WhatsApp is working on the function that will allow it to be silenced.
The novelty, on which the company has been working for some time, has begun to be deployed in version 2.22.24.15 of the Android application, within the Google Play Beta program, as reported by the WABetainfo portal.
In the captures that the aforementioned portal has shared, a message warns that “the group has more than 256 participants has been automatically silenced to help reduce notifications.” That is, large groups will be automatically muted when they have a large number of participants.
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