WhatsApp has announced new features for group chats, expanding how users can interact and add context to their role within multi-participant conversations.
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WhatsApp: Member Tags, Text Stickers and Event Reminders
The messaging app, owned by Meta, is launching three new features: Member Tags, Text Stickers, and Event Reminders. The company has designed them to offer more flexibility and organization to group conversations.
Member Tags allow users to assign themselves different roles in different group conversations for more context – for example, someone could be “Coach” in one thread and “Dad” in another.
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Text Stickers instantly convert typed words into graphic stickers that users can save in custom packs.
Finally, we have Event Reminders. When users create and send an event to a group chat, they can set custom early reminders for invitees. Meta says that “this helps everyone remember to join the party you’re hosting or join the call at the right time.
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The new group chat features are available to WhatsApp users worldwide and follow other recent platform upgrades, including third-party chat support in the EU and WhatsApp for Apple Watch.
