WhatsApp, a Meta-owned platform, has reportedly started rolling out a new "approve new participants" feature. The feature is available for beta testers for Android and iOS, in group settings.
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With the new feature, the group administrators will let the beta tester to manage how the approval of new members will work in their groups, as per the WABetaInfo report.
In particular, when the option is enabled on the app, anyone who is trying to join the group will be subjected to get the approval by an administrator.
Furthermore, the report states that the feature could offer more control over who joins the group -- by toggling the approve new participants option, group admins will now be able to approve or reject new participants when they join the group, even if they have used a group invite link, reported.
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In addition, this new feature could also let the admin limit the large number of requests they receive from people who want to join a subgroup of their community.
This feature will roll out to even more beta testers over the coming weeks, the report stated.
It has been further reported that WhatsApp is reportedly developing a new feature called "silence unknown callers" which will enable the user to mute calls from unknown numbers while still showing them in the calls list and notification centre.
At present, the new feature is currently under development on WhatsApp beta for Android, by the time of writing.
Inputs from IANS
