Group admins now have more control over who joins a group to ensure user privacy.

Meta announces two new features for WhatsApp to improve user privacy in chat groups. Meta specifically focuses here on the community chat groups that saw the light of day late last year and support up to 5,000 users.

A new feature gives group admins within a chat group control over who can join the community via an invite web link. Today you can already create and distribute such a link, but if someone shares it publicly, everyone can participate.

The new update allows group admins to granularly control who can or cannot access the group after clicking such a link, to ensure member privacy.

The second update focuses on additional convenience for all users. From now on you can tap on a user and see which group he or she is in, including you. This can be useful if you don’t remember the name of a certain group, for example.

Meta also points to advantages within the educational or professional environment. As the person responsible, you can see immediately whether members have joined all the correct groups or not.

WhatsApp users worldwide will automatically receive these two new features via an update in the coming weeks. You don’t have to do anything extra for this.

Meta is now also working on many other functions within WhatsApp. For example, there is a complete newsletter module and work is being done on a tool that converts audio messages into text. At the beginning of the year there was a rumor that WhatsApp was working on a function for sending photos in the original resolution, but this has not been said for the time being.