WhatsApp Group Admins Can Now Limit Participants from Changing the Group Info

The instant messaging platform, WhatsApp, which is currently going through a lot of changes under Facebook has rolled out a new feature, which allows a group administrator to restrict group participants from editing the group info. WhatsApp rolled out the Group Info section earlier this year, allowing users to set a description for the group. Since the feature rollout, any member of the group was allowed to edit the description, however, with this new update, WhatsApp is giving users a new option of ‘Admins or every member.’ When a user changes it to Admins, only the group administrators can edit the group info, and when ‘Every Member’ is selected, the group participants can also edit the group info. For now, this feature has been rolled out only to Android Beta users, but other platforms will get it at a later date.

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This report has surfaced from WABetaInfo which is a blog catering to WhatsApp fans, regularly updating people about the new features and updates of the application. The blog post which described this new update said that users would need to update their WhatsApp to v2.18.132 beta to access this feature. This feature is being called the Restricted Group feature and will allow the group administrators will be able to find it by navigating to Group info > Group settings > Edit group info.

Here, WhatsApp users will get the option to choose who can change the group’s subject, icon, and description – with two choices 1) All participants or 2) Only admins. The new Group settings section is also where administrators can assign new group admins.