WhatsApp’s finally recognizing that people use the chat app as more than a personal communication tool. So the company’s introducing a new Communities feature that can merge your existing groups of similar nature under one umbrella. For instance, if you have different groups related to your living complex, they can be clubbed under one community. WhatsApp says this new feature will also bring tools like cross-group announcement messages: “We think Communities will make it easier for a school principal to bring all the parents of the school together to share must-read updates and set up groups about specific classes, extracurricular…

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