If you thought WhatsApp group chats are annoying as hell, wait till you
get the next WhatsApp update. The app has added a new feature to its
group chat that will send you notification of a group chat even after
you have personally taken the pain of muting the group.
With the new update available for both Android and iOS (thankfully not
on the desktop app, yet).Even WhatsApp knows just how enraging the
feature really is, and so it rolled it out very silently indeed.
The new feature lets you tag a person using the '@' symbol followed by
the name of the contact on a group chat. Multiple contacts can be tagged
in a single message and everyone will receive a notification about it
even if they have kept the group muted.
The tagging will work even if you don't have thatperson on your contact
list but is part of the same group as you.The feature is part of
WhatsApp's plans of making group chat much more immersive and hard to
get away from.
Earlier, the app added the option of quoting messages so people know
what exactly are you replying to. The maximum group size was also
extended from 100 to 256 participants.
Now, if you happen to be a part of an actual productive group, it might
just turn out to be useful. But if you, like most others are part of
multiple annoying groups, it is only going to get so much worse.
