It hasn’t been that long since communities have been a reality in WhatsApp and, along with them, also came an increase in the number of people who can be part of a group. This is good news in general, since it allows you to share conversations with more users, but notifications can become a headache. And this is something that the application wants to solve.
There are not a few who have already verified in their own flesh, what it costs to endure in a group that has up to 1.024 members. It can be completely insufferable as soon as a topic stands out and a conversation is held with several users participating. Obviously, it is always possible to manage the arrival of notifications in the application, but not everyone has the necessary knowledge to do this. And therefore on WhatsApp with Good judgment They thought they had to do something.
What WhatsApp is already testing
Well, it is something so simple, but, at the same time, it is important, as by default, to modify the notification settings for the groups that have more than 256 members. In this way, without having to do anything by default, the notices will be silenced and you won’t have to suffer through a torrent of audio and visual prompts when a message is received. A break, really, and an option that may seem unimportant, but it will make the general operation of the application much more adequate with the new options it offers.
In the trial versions of WhatsApp (specifically 2.22.24.15), where this function is already active, you can see that when a large group is detected, a message appears. warning on the screen on the phone indicating that notifications are silenced. At this point you can confirm the action or, if you don’t want this to happen, revert the configuration. Another success for an option that makes all the sense in the world and that will save more than one life so as not to end up leaving a common conversation space where topics that may be interesting are discussed.
Test phase, which aims to be short
This is one of those novelties that WhatsApp prepares that spends little time as a test option. There are two main reasons for saying this. The first is that the implementation is quite simple, so don’t expect there to be any major bugs that would cause the use of notification blocking in large groups to be delayed. Besides, the high utility of this new possibility is also a reason that usually speeds things up, something that happens in the new function we are talking about.
