WhatsApp rolls out Communities feature to bundle together group chats

Group video calling will now support up to 32 participants

The Communities feature will allow users to organise different group chats together under a single main topic (Meta/PA)

A WhatsApp feature that enables users to bundle several group chats together under the umbrella of a single topic and share updates across them all has gone live in some countries.

First announced earlier this year and in testing since then, the Communities feature will allow users to organise different group chats together under a single main topic, for example, their children’s school or the street they live on, with Community admins able to share messages with people across all groups.