WhatsApp Community Home: A New Better Control Tool for Groups

The way WhatsApp has evolved is impressive. From a simple SMS replacement, it became a business tool, a platform for transactions, a document reader, and a group communication tool. The latter part of it is receiving further upgrades: since November 2021, it’s been testing Communities, sort of metagroups. Now it prepares an advanced control tool: Community Home.

The intention of introducing Communities was to take control over groups easier for their admins. In a Community, for example, the admin is able to block certain users from sending messages or sending a message to all the groups within a community. Communities are open to entering and can be shared with a special link. If unwanted users start entering the community en masse, the admin can reset the link, so the old one becomes invalid.

In January 2022, WhatsApp Beta for Android 2.22.4.1 turned out to bear some hints on Community Home. As far as we know, Community Home is a sort of dashboard that displays all the groups within a certain community. It’s designed to take control over groups easier – a useful feature when you run a bunch of communities like, say, online classes, where you may speak even with the same (or slightly different) groups of users on different topics and don’t want their contents to mix up.

The screenshots show two options: Manage Groups and Edit Community. The latter probably allows to create of new groups, delete them altogether, and maybe unlink groups from the community. Still, the feature isn’t functional yet, so we have to wait until the next WhatsApp Beta delivers more of it.

If you are an admin of multiple groups, how do you like the Community feature? Is it already helpful for you? Is it made better than in Telegram or other messengers? We’d be grateful if you tell us about your use of Communities in the comments.