WhatsApp Communities - what is it?

what what are communities on whatsapp so whatsapp just announced that today we're excited to share a reason for a new feature we are adding to whatsapp called communities since what's up launch we have been focused on how we can help people have the next best scene to an in-person conversation organizations like school local clubs and non-profit organizations now rely on what's up to communicate securely and get things done we think there is more we can do to make it easier to help people manage this video convert busy conversations here is where communities comes in communities on whatsapp will enable people to bring together separate groups under one umbrella business structure that works for them communities will also contain powerful new tools for admins including announcement messages that are sent to iran and control or which groups can be included so here here are an examples like city school parents humanitarian aid are building so in your building community on whatsapp you can have different groups and yeah so it's like an umbrella about what's up group so it's kind of parent feature to whatsapp groups because you know yeah exactly as i right here you can just have some situations where you have many groups which can be organized under one thing so we are also making a number of improvements to how groups work on whatsapp whether or not they are part of a community we think this will help people share in new ways and reduce overload in larger chats these features are rolling out in the coming weeks so people can start trying them out even before communities are ready reactions uh file sharing up to two gigabytes admin delete so emoji reactions are coming to whatsapp so people can quickly share opinion without flooding chats with new messages group admins will be able to delete so there you have it uh while other apps are building chats for hundreds of thousands of people we are choosing to focus on supporting uh groups that are part of our daily lives it's early days for communities on whatsapp and building the new features to support them will be a major focus of our for a year to come we can't wait to get community in people and looking forward to feedback i don't know when this feature will be live but it's just interesting to yeah interesting uh development yeah like whatsapp is very famous for his groups like the way i communicate with my friends on whatsapp is exactly the sort of group so that's the most used feature and that's why i still use this app basically here in europe so yeah for a lot of people if they have community communities it will completely make sense like to organize members of one building and also schools and all of that so yeah