Good News; WhatsApp will soon allow up to 1,024 people in group chats
WhatsApp has been adding new features to its platform to catch up with other messaging services that are miles ahead. WhatsApp group chats have been one of the areas of focus, which is continuously getting bigger. For a long time, there was a cap of 256 people to join a WhatsApp group. While this was good enough for a group of family and friends, it became limited for people working in an organization or for a larger group.
WhatsApp’s group chat limit is now expanded to 1,024 people
Then it was raised to 512 people recently. But the recent report by WABetaInfo highlights that this number will get doubled, and the number of people you can add to a group will cross the thousand mark in the coming days. Yes, WhatsApp is rolling out an update that allows creating of groups with up to 1,024 people.
Sadly, the feature is limited to beta users, and it is rolling out only to them at the moment. In fact, not all beta members have received this feature. Only a select set of WhatsApp users are reportedly getting to use the expanded WhatsApp group chat facility. This feature is rolling out to both Android and iOS users.