Meta, the parent company of WhatsApp, has announced that users can now set up group chats without having to come up with a name.
The unnamed groups would instead be given an auto-generated name based on participants.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg shared a screenshot of the new feature on his Facebook page with a group titled Rocco & Li-Chen.
The screenshot was accompanied with a message:
"Making it simpler to start WhatsApp groups by naming them based on who's in the chat when you don't feel like coming up with another name."
How WhatsApp new feature will work.
Despite being a minor update, the convenience of not having to manually name each group chat will prove beneficial for sending group messages for one-time events.
TechCrunch reports that unnamed groups will be restricted to six participants, a departure from the usual capacity of over a thousand members in a WhatsApp group.
The names of a user save contacts, WhatsApp will combine the names to create a group name.
Therefore, if a contact is saved as "Mom," the group chat will display "Mom" as the name.
In the next few days, this new automated group naming feature will be rolled out to WhatsApp users across iOS, Android, web, and macOS.
The latest update is one of the several new WhatsApp features that have been officially introduced in recent months.
These include the ability to send higher-quality images with less compression, an instant video messaging option, and the capability to engage in screen sharing.
Users' reactions
Igwe Chopinson Comics wrote:
"I love this, Absolutely Nice"
Ronalyn Melaya Pupa said:
Wow! What a brilliant idea!
Richelle Pineda reacted:
"That's an awesome idea no need to think of names that would come up with"
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