Thu 27 July 2023:
WhatsApp has added seven new countries to its Channels feature for broadcasts, including Egypt, Chile, Malaysia, Morocco, Ukraine, Kenya, and Peru.
The announcement was announced on Wednesday via a tweet and a Threads post.
👋 hey friends in 🇪🇬 🇨🇱 🇲🇾 🇲🇦 🇺🇦 🇰🇪 🇵🇪
WhatsApp Channels is now rolling out for you. Find, share and follow Channels that interest you 📲
— WhatsApp (@WhatsApp) July 24, 2023
“WhatsApp Channels is now rolling out for you. Find, share and follow Channels that interest you,” the company added.
According to the company, channels are a one-way broadcast tool for admins to send text, photos, videos, stickers and polls.
The company had introduced WhatsApp Channels last month.
In that section, admins would be able to manage certain options for their channels.
The company also intends to allow channel admins to control which reactions users can send to the channel.
Last week, the platform had introduced two new privacy features for users — Silence Unknown Callers and Privacy Checkup.
The Silence Unknown Callers feature is designed to give users more privacy and control on their incoming calls. It helps to automatically screen out spam, scams and calls from unknown people for increased protection.
These calls will not ring on users’ phones, but will be visible in their Call list, in case it turns out to be someone important.
On the other hand, the Privacy Checkup feature helps to make sure that everyone knows about the options of protection on the messaging platform.
WhatsApp unveiled a new standalone app for Wear OS earlier this month with capabilities including reacting to messages, taking VoIP calls, and starting new conversations.
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