WhatsApp will have communities like Discord

WhatsApp is rolling out a new Communities feature to WhatsApp test builds for Android and iOS. Thanks to this, it became known how it will look in both systems.

The first mention of this feature appeared back in November 2021, but now it is being more actively implemented into the interface. how notes WABetaInfo, in beta version 2.22.9.10 for Android, the location of the function is similar to beta for iOS: the "Communities" tab will replace the icon for quick access to the camera. On the iPhone, everything works exactly the same - except for visual differences in the arrangement of elements.

"Communities" are designed to bring together people with similar interests. This is not an analogue of group chats, but rather separate spaces within WhatsApp in which it will be possible to create separate topics, and administrators will be endowed with more rights than administrators of standard chats.

It is not yet known when the feature will be available to users of the stable version of WhatsApp.