Looks like WhatsApp doesn’t wish to stop anytime soon. WhatsApp is giving people the ability to add a description to group chat.
This feature, as the name suggests will let users add a description to their respective groups, similar to what we have been doing in our personal profiles all this while. The feature is currently seen on WhatsApp beta for Android and Windows and expect it to roll out the feature very soon.
The feature isn’t available for everyone just yet, but you can look for it by opening a group and tapping the info bar that appears at the top of it.If you do have access to it, you can then hit “Add Group Description”.
For now, all members of a group chat – who have access to the feature, that is – have the ability to add or change the group’s description, which will inevitably lead to a certain amount of mischief and regular modifications. However, this could change in the near future.
According to WABetaInfo, which first spotted the new feature, group administrators will soon be able to prevent non-admins from modifying a group description.
“The group description is visible to participants of this group and people invited to this group,” the group description page on the WhatsApp app says.
When somebody new is added to a group, they’ll also see the description at the top of the chat screen.
While the option to add group descriptions isn’t a hugely significant new feature, it could prove useful for certain types of WhatsApp group chats, for instance, those created around an event.
The person or people organising the event could post key information in the description box, which other members will be able to find easily, without having to scan the entire conversation or ask for details to be repeated.
Currently, the Group description feature is seen in the testing stage on Android and Windows beta versions of the app. There is still no word if at all the feature will hit the iOS devices or not. However, looking back at the track record of the messaging application, chances are WhatsApp will most likely bring the feature to iOS as well, but the users might have to wait for some more time.
