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7 new WhatsApp features launched in 2022

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1. Message Yourself

While many of us have been messaging ourselves on WhatsApp for years now, the Meta-owned company has finally added the ability natively and calls it "Message Yourself". The feature is extremely useful to take notes, create shopping lists, save media files, etc.

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2. Create Polls

Users can now create polls in personal or group chats. Whenever you have trouble deciding which movie to watch or which restaurant to visit, just make a poll and ask your friends in your WhatsApp group to cast their votes.

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3. Emoji Reactions

Similar to other Meta owned social media platforms, the ability to quickly react to stories and messages using emojis has finally made its way to WhatsApp.

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4. Create Call Links

Users can create voice/video call links and share it outside of WhatsApp. Whoever has the link can join the call. Ensure to share this link only with people you trust as the link, once created, cannot be deleted and only expires after 90 days.

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5. Monitor Audio/Video Calls

Admins can now mute users during a call. The feature works similar to other video conferencing platforms, where the host can mute users and users can later on unmute themselves.

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6. Delete Others' Messages from Groups

Another perk of being a WhatsApp group Admin is that you can now delete offensive or problematic messages of participating members of a group chat.

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7. Group Size Increased

WhatsApp group size has been increased and doubled to house up to 512 members in a group. Earlier, the group size was limited to 256 members.

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