WhatsApp has released a new update to its beta program today. The platform, which has more than 2 billion active users worldwide, tries to keep up with the demands and complaints from the users. Almost every day, we hear about their attempts to correct various errors and make up for deficiencies. In addition, the platform does not hesitate to make minor changes to the system. Here is one of them appeared today…
WhatsApp changed the group icon
The messaging platform has sent out a new update through the Google Play Beta Program. With this update, it increased the version to 2. 21. 24.3. According to the news of WABetaInfo, we see that WhatsApp has made an interesting change in the latest version. The platform has chosen to make a minor change to the group icon.
WhatsApp has released the new WhatsApp beta for Android 2. 21. 24.3 update. However, we cannot say that the new version brings new features. Only a contact is missing from the contact image in the group icon. So, why did WhatsApp make this change?
Last week, we announced that WhatsApp is working on the ‘communities’ feature. Thus, platform administrators will have more authority over groups. These communities are similar to groups, but different. A feature for grouping groups.
We can give an example to explain this issue better. Think of a course center as a community. Within these communities, there will be groups. Groups will separate the classes in the course. So while the big group will be communities, there will be groups in it.
The icon for the Communities feature has also appeared. Accordingly, it was seen that the community icons were square and had rounded edges to distinguish communities from group chat. According to the news source, WhatsApp seems to want to use the old group icon for communities. The new icon is already in use for beta testers. Unfortunately, it is not clear when the communities feature will be released.