In the trio of roll-out achieved by WhatsApp in the past few hours, two very interesting releases for common users have shone, including the greatest diffusion of 512-member groups, and filters for unread chats.
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The famous messaging platform WhatsApp, often engaged in developing new functions under the track, in the past few hours has instead ventured into three roll-outs, promptly reported by the WABetaInfo leakers.
The first news related to WhatsApp of this short weekend launch recap, also prepared for the Desktop iteration of the platform, was found to be in roll-out in the beta release 2.22.13.10 for Android and in the beta release 22.12.0.73 for iOS in favor of Business accounts: the latter, in the case of sending messages, will have more information about them, if several devices are connected to the same account.
In particular, directly from the information of the messages, it will be possible to read the name of the device to which the message has been sent: if you notice the term “admin“, this will show that the message has been sent from the main device. The feature trackers of WABetaInfo have pointed out, in this regard, to reassure companies, that the info in question will not be shared with people outside those who are connected to their account.
The second novelty of WhatsApp instead also affects the common user and has been found for some users who have installed the beta release 2.22.13.14 for Android or even on other previous releases, with further activations that will follow in the coming weeks: specifically, yes is about chat filters.
The latter have already appeared on WhatsApp Desktop, where however they are always visible, perhaps due to the greater space available on large screens. In the case of the implementation for Android (to date no trace of it has been identified for iOS, although it is only a matter of time), it is necessary to perform a search among the chats and messages: at that juncture, the “Unread “, Which will display those conversations in which there is one or more unread messages.
Last month there was talk of big updates for WhatsApp, with the ability to send files up to 2 GB, and the ability to create groups of up to 512 members. This latest novelty was initially released to a few users while now, as well as on Desktop, with the beta versions for Android 2.22.13.10 and beta for iOS 22.12.0.73, the novelty reaches more users (even the latest stable releases ). The feature trackers of WABetaInfo, in reporting the news, took the opportunity to remember how it is possible to add users, to reach 512 members, even later, by accessing the information of the group.