WhatsApp rolls out ‘Communities’ with end-to-end encryption: All details

Meta-owned WhatsApp has announced the ‘Communities on WhatsApp’ feature. According to the company, the Communities feature is a major update to how people will be able to connect on WhatsApp in the groups. Communities like neighborhoods, parents at a school, and workplaces can now connect multiple groups together under one umbrella to organise group conversations on WhatsApp, states the messaging platform. WhatsApp explains that ‘Communities on WhatsApp’ are close-knit groups that need more tools to organise and manage their conversations and these kinds of groups typically have a connection where people know one another, organised around a common place or interest. We are building a number of updates to provide private, safe, and secure ways for these groups to communicate on WhatsApp with the following principles as our guide.” Control for admins As per WhatsApp, admins are responsible for creating and managing Communities on WhatsApp.