WhatsApp: Latest update on Groups feature - "Expiring Groups" feature

 WhatsApp: Groups on WhatsApp are no longer permanent

WhatsApp is going to introduce “Expiring Groups” feature on the line of “disappearing messages” and “view once” features on whatsapp.

School, college, office or apartment, WhatsApp groups are created everywhere to communicate the same thing to more people. In some cases, friends and colleagues create temporary groups and discus things like a birthday part, a college tour or festive celebration. Then they forget to delete them. WhatsApp will be introducing a new feature for such people.

With this feature called “Expiring Groups”, users can create temporary groups, similar to disappearing messages and view once features. Automatically deleted after a specific period of time selected by the user. The feature, which is currently in the testing phase, will soon be made available to regular users.

How does it work ?

After creating a WhatsApp group, you need to go to group info. The group settings option appears in it.

If you click on it, you will have an option called Expiring Groups. When you tap on it, you will see four options: 

• Day
• Week
• Custom Date 
• Remove Expiration Date. 

The date to which the group wants to be live should be selected with the custom date option. If the group is to be deleted, the date to be deleted is selected. If you want to continue even after that. Click on remove expiration date. The group will remain live until the group admin deletes it.

Some new features:

Apart from this, WhatsApp will also introduce some new features to its users. 

These include features such as:

• Silence Unknown Callers
• Schedule Calls
• Transcribe voice messages etc. 

With the Silence Unknown Callers feature, this feature prevents a user from ringing if they call from a new number. WhatsApp says that this will prevent scam/spam calls. 

WhatsApp brings the Scheduled Calls feature to schedule video/audio calls in the group. If you enter the details like the name, date and time of the meeting and click on Create, the call will be scheduled. The alert notification will go to all the group members as soon as the call starts. 

With the Transcribe voice message feature, voice messages can be read in the form of text.