From now on, you can create groups of up to 512 people on WhatsApp
June 20, 1401 at 13:53
WhatsApp users are now able to create groups with a maximum of 512 people. This means that WhatsApp has increased the number of users in groups.
Recently, WhatsApp messenger has increased the number of participants in a group conversation from 8 to 32 people. Now it’s time to increase the number of authorized users in a group and WhatsApp has increased it to 512 people.
Yes, you read that right, you can now have groups of up to 512 members. For several weeks, this feature was activated as a test for some users, but now it is available to all users of the iOS, Android and desktop version of WhatsApp.
Creating a WhatsApp group with a maximum of 512 people
To create groups of up to 512 people in WhatsApp, you must have at least version 22.12.0.73 of WhatsApp installed on your iPhone and version 2.22.13.10 on your Android phone. So make sure that the latest version of this messenger is installed on your device. And if you notice after the update that this function is not activated for you, don’t worry, wait 24 hours until after that, the limit of the number of users in the group of 512 people will be activated for you.
Besides increasing the number of group users to 512 people, WhatsApp has also announced that it is working on the ability to extract backups of users’ chats through Google Drive in a beta version on Android systems. WABetaInfo It reports that this feature has been tested on WhatsApp Android version 2.22.13.11 and its backup includes all user chat history including texts, images, videos and other multimedia files. Although it is not clear when this feature will be available to the general public.
Coming back to our discussion, now if you want to see if you are also able to create groups of 512 people, first open the WhatsApp application and click on the New Group option from the top of the screen. If this feature was activated for you, the number of users will be displayed as 0.512.