WhatsApp messenger has started testing to increase the maximum capacity of groups on the service. According to website WABetaInfoSoon it will be possible to create and maintain groups of up to 1024 people.
This innovation has emerged for certain user groups. In the Beta app for Android and iOS, but not yet implemented for the entire base. Apparently, the limit doesn’t just apply to new groups created after the new number is applied.
That is, joint conversations that are already in progress can go beyond the previous threshold after the admins feature. The current number is 512, which is the maximum number implemented in mid-2022.
Recently, WhatsApp has also been updated to give group admins more powers and functions. It is worth remembering that this feature is different from communities, which are also conversations between several people, which will only reach Brazil in 2023.
Telegram, a direct competitor of WhatsApp, allows the creation of groups More than 20 thousand peopleit already has at least half that limit since 2017.
Source: Tec Mundo
