WhatsApp is releasing larger groups up to 1024 participants!
After announcing WhatsApp Premium, an optional subscription plan for certain businesses, WhatsApp is now releasing another important feature this week on WhatsApp beta for Android and iOS: the ability to add up to 1024 participants to groups, available to some lucky beta testers!
| Common questions | Answers |
|---|---|
| Name of the feature? | Larger groups – 1024 participants |
| Status? | Rolling out |
| Compatibility? | Latest versions of WhatsApp beta for Android and iOS are marked as compatible updates. |
| I’ve installed this update but I don’t have this feature. Why? | This feature has only been released to some lucky beta testers. In this case, please wait for a future update in order to get the feature. |
| Thanks: | _youssef, kingcyrious, and Rogeriusx, for testing and reporting! |
| Previous news? | WhatsApp beta for iOS 22.21.0.74: what’s new? WhatsApp is working on a list of pending group participants |
In June, we posted news about a new feature available to beta testers that’s the ability to add up to 512 people to groups: thanks to this feature, users could finally create larger groups than before. To our great surprise, WhatsApp decided to increase the group limit again by supporting groups up to 1024 people this week!
As you can see in this screenshot, this feature is available on WhatsApp beta for Android and iOS but it is limited to a certain undefined number of beta testers. If you want to check if the feature is available for your WhatsApp account, just try to create a group or to add new participants to an existing one: in this section, you can see what’s the limit configured for your account. If you stil see “512”, don’t worry: since it is a small test as happened in Argentina with the feature that lets share media files up to 2GB in size, it might take a while before reaching all other WhatsApp account, so nothing is wrong with your account.
In our opinion, this is a very important step forward since sub-groups of communities support the same new limit and WhatsApp is also developing new tools to give admins more control over these larger groups in the future, such as a list of pending participants and an approval system.
This feature is rolling out to some lucky beta testers on WhatsApp beta for Android and iOS this week. As always we will let you know when more people are able to add more than 512 participants in their groups.
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