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WhatsApp To Soon Let You Create Groups Without Adding People: What It Means

WhatsApp To Soon Let You Create Groups Without Adding People: What It Means

News1806-05-2025
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Last Updated: May 06, 2025, 08:35 IST
WhatsApp will soon make it easy to create group and add members later
WhatsApp Groups are created when you have people to add but the messaging app is working to make that unnecessary. Yes, WhatsApp groups can soon be created without adding a contact/member/friend.
The platform will allow you to create the group and gradually add people by sharing the group link or invite with them. While this may not sound like a big deal, the messaging app is clearly making it easy to make groups and eventually bring members to them.
WhatsApp Group Without Contacts
The details about the feature come via WaBetaInfo who also says the platform will offer a new range of tools for group chats to make it convenient for the users. The new option has been spotted in the WhatsApp 2.25.14.12 beta version for Android and will be soon available in the stable version as well.
How To Create WhatsApp Groups
WhatsApp lets you create groups from the Chat floating box. The messaging app always needed you to add a contact to make a new group but this beta version shows it won't be needed soon. The group can have just you as the member and you can add other people later.
This way, WhatsApp groups become more than just a chat box with multiple people, and allow you to store media files and documents from people at work or family. It's not the same, but the new update will make Groups work like the Message myself chat option on WhatsApp that lets you save messages, files and links among others.
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WhatsApp has officially confirmed its privacy plans for the AI chats and promises Apple-like security measures to keep your data secure even while processing it on the cloud.
People often seek on-device processing for AI features for additional privacy but as Apple has realised, the abilities are limited and now Meta is feeling the same impact. So, it has decided to set up a private computing cloud system that tries to do the best of both worlds and keep your data secure.
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