If you’re tired of endless group chats, this might be the solution you’ve been waiting for.
The Meta messaging application is part of our lives, sometimes without us wanting it to be so. And it is that today, if we need to be in contact with friends and family today, there is nothing better than using an application that has millions of users around the world. Now, thanks to the information published by the Wabetainfo website, we have learned how the group chats they will win one functionality that perhaps you did not expect, but that could become essential for various reasons that we will explain below.
WhatsApp replicates the messages that Tom Cruise received in ‘Mission: Impossible’: groups with the hours counted
As if it were the protagonist of the famous film saga, the groups on whatsapp it seems that they will integrate a new feature, which will allow these chats to be deleted at a time that will be established by the user himself. Currently, anyone has the ability to create a group, manage it, and even remove participants. As reported by the digital media that we mentioned earlier, WhatsApp seems to be adding the ‘Expiring Groups’ function, which could be translated as ‘Ephemeral groups’in the next updates.
📝 WhatsApp beta for iOS 23.5.0.71: what’s new?
WhatsApp is working on expiring groups as an additional tool to save space, for a future update of the app! https://t.co/LG37bdLyIN
— WABetaInfo (@WABetaInfo) March 7, 2023
Currently, for a group to be deleted, the administrator must first remove all participants and then close the group, although people will still be able to see messages and files if they don’t delete the group from their devices. According to information from Wabetainfo, the users will be able create groups have one concrete duration. At this moment, in the tests that seem to be being carried out, experiment with durations of a day, a week, and a custom date. Also, this kind of limitationif the user regrets it, may be removed and leave the group as a conventional group chat.
It seems that ephemeral groups will be created conventionally and it will be the user who decides whether to self-destruct them at a certain time. On this occasion, the information has come through the whatsapp version 23.5.0.71which is in testing at iOS through the program TestFlight, an app that users of Apple devices can download to test applications under test. We will be attentive to the date of integration of this feature to the official versions of WhatsApp for Android and iOS and we will continue telling you news about the most used messaging app.