The number of people who can join WhatsApp Groups has been raised from 256 to 512.
The Meta-owned messaging platform has started rolling out the new feature to users, and is expected to reach all Android and iOS users soon.
It is however still far from the 200,000 participant limit available to Telegram users through super groups.
Besides this, WhatsApp has also started rolling out the ability to send files up to 2GB in size, which will be end-to-end decrypted. This will be a significant increase from the 100MB file size limit that was set previously.
The messaging platform recommends using Wi-Fi for large file transfers and there will now be an indicator during the transfer process for people to know of the progress. This feature was first rolled out in a recent WhatsApp beta.
WhatsApp is also currently working on another way to manage several group chats efficiently, and that is through Communities. A community will appear as a new tab within the app, just like Calls and Status.
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It will also contain several groups, allowing admins to send announcements and updates to all participants at once.
