2022 was a very important year for the popular instant messaging app, WhatsApp. Even as competitors became stronger and challenges arose, WhatsApp did not give up. WhatsApp owned by Meta has introduced many great features for its users. These innovative, secure and convenient features have helped WhatsApp become the number one instant messaging app. Let’s see the WhatsApp features released this year. It includes only selected features.

WhatsApp Communities

Communities is one of the biggest features introduced by WhatsApp this year. It has helped schools, local clubs, and workplaces to create separate communities by bringing multiple groups under one roof, and to manage the conversation quickly on busy occasions. This feature also allows you to create sub-groups within groups.

In-Chat Polling

In-chat polls introduced by WhatsApp in groups and personal chats help to quickly understand people’s opinion. This feature allows you to understand people’s interest through polling by asking a question and a few options. Through this, quick decisions can be made on important issues in groups.

More people in the group

The number of people who can be added to WhatsApp groups has been increased from 256 to 1024 this year. With this, there is no need to create multiple groups related to office, club, school etc.

Admins have more control over groups

2022 is also the year that WhatsApp group admins are given new features to make groups more organized and responsible. Through this, admins can delete anyone’s message from group chats by using delete for everyone.

Can hide online status

A very useful feature to hide your online status was also released this year. With this feature you can now hide online status only from selected contacts. You can also hide your last scene in this way.

You can leave the group without anyone knowing, and people can be kicked out

The problem with being left out of groups is that everyone knows about it. But now you can be left from the group without anyone knowing. Apart from this, admins can also kick people out without others knowing. Note that if no one from the group is left without knowing it, the admins will know about it.

Unknowingly deleted can be recovered

If we change the group and share something, we immediately delete it by hitting delete for everyone. If you accidentally hit “delete for me” while doing this, it’s a mistake. In such cases it is possible to retrieve the message and delete it for everyone.

More people on group calls

Previously, the number of people who could be added to WhatsApp group video calls was 8. But now it has been increased to 32 people. It will help bring office calls and more to WhatsApp.

We can send the message ourselves

A new feature called Message Yourself helps users save messages, notes, to-dos, photos and videos.