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WhatsApp has reportedly been working on a new Communities feature, and we now have our first look at it. The Communities feature is expected to enhance the app’s functionality by allowing up to ten groups to be linked in a single ‘Community.’ The feature was recently discovered in an iOS beta build and is expected to be available on both platforms soon. Admins of a community will have more control than admins of a group and will be able to do things like decide who can and cannot message on…

WhatsApp, the Meta-owned short messaging platform used by over 2 billion people around the world, is constantly updating and adding new features. The WhatsApp Messenger beta for iOS has received a new update, version 2.22.1.1. This new update includes hidden references to creating Communities in order to prepare for a future update. WhatsApp was developing a feature called Communities. This feature extends WhatsApp’s group feature, in which group admins have more control over other WhatsApp groups. A WhatsApp Community admin is said to have more power than a group admin….

WhatsApp appears to be working on a new voice call interface. The interface would be available in both the Android and iOS versions of the messaging app. Through this new interface, WhatsApp hopes to improve the experience of individual and group voice calls. According to WABetainfo, WhatsApp is currently working to introduce a redesigned interface for users when making voice calls. The changes are not yet available even for WhatsApp beta testers. WhatsApp is redesigning the interface for a future update to make it more compact and modern, organising the…

Several weeks after the release of Meta’s Horizon Worlds, reports surfaced of a female beta tester alleging that she was groped on the virtual reality (VR) platform. The beta tester allegedly told Meta that she was groped by a stranger on Horizon Worlds, and that other people agreed with her. She also shared her experience on Facebook in the Horizon Worlds beta testing group. “Sexual harassment is no joke on the regular internet, but being in VR adds another layer that makes the event more intense,” The Verge quoted the…

Signal now allows up to 40 people to participate in a group video conference. Despite the increased number of call participants, the messaging app says that the platform assures that all communication is end-to-end encrypted. Signal said it uses “Selective Forwarding” technology, which allows calls to be routed through servers that transfer the call’s contents to other participants without sacrificing privacy. It’s presently being rolled out to Signal’s Android and iOS versions. “We launched group calls using a modified version of one of them, but shortly found that even with…

Mark Zuckerberg’s social networking app, Facebook, had a one-of-a-kind name when he started it. However, Zuckerberg’s choice to bring Meta into the picture this time proved to be problematic for companies with the same name. After Facebook unveiled its new identity, a small time Instagram publisher with the moniker Meta unexpectedly vanished from the platform. Quartz was the first to report on the incident. An Instagram account with the same name existed long before Facebook changed its name to Meta. The account belongs to the same-named small-time magazine, which primarily…

Meta is testing live chat support for users locked out of their accounts. Any user who is locked out of their account will soon be able to resolve the issues via a live chat feature. Facebook is testing out a new tool for users who are unable to access their account or have been locked out for any reason. A Live Chat Support System for English-speaking users of the social media site in the United States is the latest addition. For users who don’t know how to retrieve their accounts,…

WhatsApp is rolling out a new security update that better syncs the WhatsApp chat between a user’s mobile application and other linked devices like a laptop. WhatsApp has introduced three options for the disappearing messages feature; 24 hours, 7 days, or 90 days. Users were reportedly experiencing chat synchronisation issues when using whatsapp on multiple devices. According to reports, the bug causes incorrectly synced chats between the various linked devices. WhatsApp, the world’s most popular messaging app, is now rolling out a security fix for the issue, which resolves the…