WhatsApp Communities offers a communications system that lets large organizations manage all their WhatsApp groups in one place. Members can send messages to the primary group or subgroups from their phones,Chromebooks, or laptops. This guide shows you how to create and manage WhatsApp Communities.
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What is WhatsApp Communities, and how does it work?
WhatsApp Communities is a feature that allows you to sort multiple WhatsApp groups under a larger one known as a community. You can create a community for your organization’s Finance, General Management, and Human Resources department groups. You can also make a community for family, friends, and colleagues. Here are some of the reasons for creating a WhatsApp community:
When you make a new community, it creates the Announcement group and makes you the admin. It’s where you share important information, and everyone sees it, regardless of the group. If you send a message to a subgroup, only that group sees it. Only community admins can send messages to the Announcement group, but you can assign admin roles to members to allow them to do the same.
Adding groups to your community doesn’t mean members automatically join every other group. They can only see the groups when they view the community’s info and must request to join. Community admins can remove anyone from a group, but the member remains in the Announcement group until you remove them.
Like Groups, WhatsApp ensures privacy with end-to-end encryption. Only community admins see all participants. Other admins or members only see and message contacts in the same groups, meaning strangers can’t creep into your DMs.
What’s the difference between WhatsApp communities, groups, and broadcasts?
WhatsApp has several ways to arrange contacts and streamline communication into groups, broadcasts, and communities, and it’s easy to confuse them.
WhatsApp Communities combines Broadcast and Group functionalities. It’s a collection of WhatsApp groups, and you can have up to 50 communities and add 5,000 members to the Announcement group. Communities supports 32-person video and voice calls, file sharing of sizes over 2GB,message reactions, and creating polls.
A WhatsApp group is a chat room where anyone can send a message, and everyone sees it. you’re able to alsosend messages to an unsaved numberin the group. There can only be one group owner, and they can appoint as many admins as needed to manage the group with them. When the creator exits, ownership transfers to another admin.
With communities, ownership transfer isn’t possible. When you deactivate the community, you lose it permanently. Initially, groups could hold only 512, but the numbers have increased to 1,024 since Meta launched Communities. Also, Groups now allows 32 people to be on a video and voice call. Media file sharing and sending voice notes are also supported.
Broadcasts allows you to select a list of people from your contacts and send bulk messages to them. The recipient doesn’t know the message is generic and receives it as a normal chat. If they reply, you’ll see a standard text. you’re able to’t use video or voice calling since broadcast lists don’t gather members into one space like Groups and Communities. You can add up to 256 people to a Broadcast list.
How to create a WhatsApp community
You can create a new group and include it in your community or add an existing one. You must be an admin to add an existing group. Otherwise, you can’t add groups. WhatsApp doesn’t notify your contacts when you create a new community. When you add an existing group, the entire group is alerted.
Create a WhatsApp community on Android
Create a WhatsApp community on iOS
Create a WhatsApp community on the desktop
you may create a WhatsApp community without leaving the desktop. The experience is better on a large canvas. If you’re unfamiliar with the company’s desktop apps, check our dedicated guide to set up yourWhatsApp accounton Windows or Mac and use the steps below.
That’s it. You can share updates with the group members in the community.
How to manage members and groups in Communities
You can add new members to your community or request people to join by sharing the link. The polite thing to do is invite them via URL since not everyone is okay with being added without permission. The URL allows people to decide if they want to join the community.
When someone joins a group, they become part of the community. They can only access the Announcement group when they join the community via URL. They can’t see what goes on in subgroups until you add them or they request to join one.
When a participant exits a group or removes it, they remain in the Announcement group until you remove them. Communities offers an option to remove a member from all groups simultaneously, including the Announcement group.
Add members to a WhatsApp community on Android
Add members to a WhatsApp community on iOS
Add members to a WhatsApp community on desktop
Remove members and groups from a WhatsApp community on Android
Remove members and groups from a WhatsApp community on iOS
Remove members and groups from a WhatsApp community on desktop
How to deactivate a community
WhatsApp doesn’t let you leave a community if you created it. you may only deactivate the community. This action disbands every group or member and deletes the community permanently. Groups continue to exist outside the community until you delete them. There isn’t a grace period to recover a community after deleting it. The best you can do is create a new one and organize it to look like the deactivated one.
Deactivate a WhatsApp community on Android
Deactivate a WhatsApp community on iOS
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Deactivate a WhatsApp community on desktop
Take control of your WhatsApp groups
WhatsApp Communities offers an organized view of all your groups. You can create polls, video-call your friends, and much more. Use thesetips and tricksto make the most of the messaging app. WhatsApp pushes updates regularly, so get the latest software updates to enjoy new features.
