After working on the feature for several months now, Meta’s WhatsApp has announced that it will roll out the community feature to users globally, including in Kenya.
The new feature will be rolled out in the coming months.
Users will be able to connect to WhatsApp groups via communities.
They will be able to categorise groups under one label; work groups family groups business groups, etc.
Users can simply tap on the communities tab which appears at the top of chats on Android devices and the bottom on iOS.
From the communities tabs, users will create a new community from scratch or simply add existing groups
WhatsApp said that with communities it aims to raise the bar for how organizations communicate with a level of privacy and security not found anywhere else.
“The alternatives available today require trusting apps or software companies with a copy of their messages - and we think they deserve the higher level of security provided by end-to-end encryption,” the platform said.
The feature will be available on both iOS and Android devices.
In addition, it has launched two new Group features, including 32-person video calling and groups with up to 1024 users.
Until now, the 32-people calling feature was limited to voice calls only.
