By Ben Otto

 

WhatsApp, the messaging service owned by Facebook parent company Meta Platforms Inc., is rolling out features including larger chat groups, 32-person video calls and the option to create a collection of group chats under a single organizer.

WhatsApp said in a blog post Thursday that it will now allow group chats of up to 1,024 people, video calls of up to 32 people and in-chat polls. Whatsapp had previously limited group chats to 256 people.

The company has also begun the global rollout of a Communities feature that will allow the creation of multiple groups under one organizer, such as a school, family, neighborhood or workplace. The service -- plans for which were unveiled in April -- will be available globally in the coming months, WhatsApp said.

WhatsApp, which had more than 2 billion users worldwide as of early 2020, highlighted the end-to-end encryption built into its messaging.

"With Communities, we're aiming to raise the bar for how organizations communicate with a level of privacy and security not found anywhere else," Whatsapp said. "The alternatives available today require trusting apps or software companies with a copy of their messages -- and we think they deserve the higher level of security provided by end-to-end encryption."

 

Write to Ben Otto at ben.otto@wsj.com

 

(END) Dow Jones Newswires

November 03, 2022 06:31 ET (10:31 GMT)

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