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WhatsApp, the Meta-owned messaging platform, has announced new features in line with the announcement made last month to its communities. Among them, greater capacity for file shares, more emojis to react to messages and larger chat groups.
Facilitate the internal communication of organizations
The goal, according to WhatsApp, is to facilitate communication between groups of small businesses, school groups or even other organizations. The company clarifies in a blog post that users will now be able to send files up to 2 GB – whereas they were previously limited to 100 MB – while being protected by end-to-end encryption.
“We recommend using Wi-Fi for larger files, and we’ll display a counter while it’s uploading or downloading to let you know how long your transfer took,” the company adds.
WhatsApp has also confirmed that it will start rolling out the ability to create larger group holds, which can hold up to 512 people – up from 256 currently.
whatsapp reactions
Also, the company announced WhatsApp Reactions, a new feature that will be available on the latest version of the app.
“Reactions are fun, quick, and they also reduce overload in groups. We will continue to improve them by adding an even wider range of expressions in the future, ”describes WhatsApp.
“Building private, safe and secure communities takes work and we believe this series of improvements will help people and groups stay close to each other,” the company adds.
Source: ZDNet.com