{"id":33612,"date":"2023-08-23T14:42:04","date_gmt":"2023-08-23T14:42:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/08\/23\/whatsapp-will-let-you-set-up-group-chats-without-having-to-come-up-with-a-name\/"},"modified":"2023-08-23T14:42:04","modified_gmt":"2023-08-23T14:42:04","slug":"whatsapp-will-let-you-set-up-group-chats-without-having-to-come-up-with-a-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/08\/23\/whatsapp-will-let-you-set-up-group-chats-without-having-to-come-up-with-a-name\/","title":{"rendered":"WhatsApp will let you set up group chats without having to come up with a name"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph mb-20 font-fkroman text-18 leading-160 -tracking-1 selection:bg-franklin-20 dark:text-white dark:selection:bg-blurple [&amp;_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-franklin dark:[&amp;_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-blurple [&amp;_a]:shadow-underline-black dark:[&amp;_a]:shadow-underline-white\">WhatsApp will soon let users create new group chats without having to name them, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/zuck\/posts\/pfbid052GAV4iPYPPYzvtDQomkyFD9hWjW8HeM5vKzS7gH2g3kc26Qd2QZxMUyTRTUyh1pl?locale=en_GB\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has announced<\/a>. Unnamed groups will instead be given an auto-generated name based on their participants. In a screenshot shared by Zuckerberg, we can see one such group titled \u201cRocco &amp; Li-Chen.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph mb-20 font-fkroman text-18 leading-160 -tracking-1 selection:bg-franklin-20 dark:text-white dark:selection:bg-blurple [&amp;_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-franklin dark:[&amp;_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-blurple [&amp;_a]:shadow-underline-black dark:[&amp;_a]:shadow-underline-white\">Although it\u2019s a minor feature, not having to name each and every group chat should be helpful for those times when you\u2019re sending group messages for one-off events. I\u2019m personally in a dozen or so WhatsApp groups that are just titled \u201cDrinks?\u201d which were set up for a one-off event and were never intended to be an ongoing group chat. Being able to see a list of participants in the chat list rather than a nondescript group chat title feels like an improvement to me. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph mb-20 font-fkroman text-18 leading-160 -tracking-1 selection:bg-franklin-20 dark:text-white dark:selection:bg-blurple [&amp;_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-franklin dark:[&amp;_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-blurple [&amp;_a]:shadow-underline-black dark:[&amp;_a]:shadow-underline-white\"><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2023\/08\/23\/whatsapp-groups-without-names\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">According to <em>TechCrunch<\/em><\/a>, unnamed groups will be limited to six participants, rather than the thousand-plus that can normally join a WhatsApp group. The app will use the names you\u2019ve saved individual contacts as to generate a group name, which means that group names will appear differently for their different participants (so if you have a contact saved as \u201cMom,\u201d then you\u2019ll see \u201cMom\u201d in the group chat name). <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2023\/8\/23\/23842834\/whatsapp-group-chat-name-unnamed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WhatsApp will soon let users create new group chats without having to name them, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has announced. Unnamed groups will instead be given an auto-generated name based on their participants. In a screenshot shared by Zuckerberg, we can see one such group titled \u201cRocco &amp; Li-Chen.\u201d Although it\u2019s a minor feature, not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33613,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-33612","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tech"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33612\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}