WhatsApp Restricted Groups Will Let Admins, Silence, Reject Messages

Facebook-owned WhatsApp update brings a new feature; WhatsApp Restricted Groups, which might be a huge deal for group admins. Well, this feature will offer group administrators to silence and ban other members.

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WhatsApp Restricted Groups

According to WABetaInfo, this very new feature of WhatsApp will restrict all other members from sending text messages, images, videos, GIFs, documents or even voice messages in case the admin thinks so. The Restricted Groups setting can only be activated by group administrators.

Once, a member is restricted from sending messages or any other form sharing anything in the group, other members will able to only see and read their message and will not be able to respond. Moreover, they will have to use the “Message Admin” button to post a message or share media to the group.

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In addition to that, the message will need to be approved by the admin before going to the group. The fan site that tests new WhatsApp feature said; “A group can be restricted once every 72 hours but thanks to the 2.17.430 beta, we discovered that WhatsApp will be finally able to change this value from the server.”

WhatsApp has also announced advanced features, bug fixes and other general improvements in the upcoming update. The WhatsApp Restricted Groups is in WhatsApp beta version 2.17.430. Well, if you want to test it out download the APK from APKMirror.

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