The update will also make it easier for users to discover what groups they have in common with other users.
The tech giant has said it wanted to give admins more control over their group privacy. Apart from deciding who can join a group, an admin will be able to choose to share their group’s invite link, or make their group joinable in a community.
Meta said in a blog post that people have some of their most intimate conversations on groups and it’s important that admins are able to easily decide who can and cannot come in.
“With the growth of Communities and their larger groups, we want to make it easy to know which the common groups you have with someone. Whether you’re trying to remember the name of a group you know you share with someone or you want to see the groups you’re both in, you can now easily search a contact’s name,” the company added.
These features will start rolling out globally over the coming weeks.
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The changes follow some of the updates that have been made over the last few months, including making groups larger, and giving admins the ability to delete messages sent in the groups they manage. In November last year, the company rolled out Communities which it said is a “major update to how people will be able to connect on WhatsApp in the groups that matter to them”.
“Communities like neighbourhoods, parents at a school, and workplaces can now connect multiple groups together under one umbrella to organise group conversations on WhatsApp,” the company said.
The platform said that it will keep adding more tools to “offer users the most out of group chatting feature.”
