WhatsApp adds some useful features to make group calls more manageable (Credit: Getty)

WhatsApp has released a new update that includes several features designed to make group calls easier.

First, you can mute one person during a group call.

This saves lives for several reasons. Maybe someone will forget to be quiet (we’re all there), so you can save your friends and work at the university from embarrassment.

Second, if multiple people are making a group call in the same room, it’s helpful to keep one person silent to avoid this offending echo.

Like Zoom and Microsoft Teams, hosts can mute people they need to (if they have permission), but people can’t mute each other. If you have a large number of participants in some meetings, you can quickly see how the new version of WhatsApp works.

In addition to the mute option, a new WhatsApp update also allows you to send specific people during a group call.

This means you can take notes for someone (or a joke) without warning the whole team.

Finally, when someone enters a group chat, they’ll see a banner message telling everyone they’ve arrived. This is useful if you are using WhatsApp on a small phone screen as you cannot set everyone on the screen to jump when someone joins the call.

In fact, this also means that you cannot be late for the meeting and go unnoticed.

How many people can I add to WhatsApp chat?

Video calls on WhatsApp are limited to 8 people, but voice calls can be up to 32 people.

The number of WhatsApp group chats is increasing.

The messaging app originally had a 100-person limit for group chat, but as demand for larger groups grew, WhatsApp increased that number to 256 in 2016.

Then he raised the limit again to 512.

The company said in a statement about the update: “One of the top requests we always get is the ability to add more people to our chat.

As a result, we are now slowly announcing the ability to add up to 512 people to the group.