{"id":104090,"date":"2018-07-20T16:34:16","date_gmt":"2018-07-20T16:34:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sftarticles.wpenginepowered.com\/en\/?p=104090"},"modified":"2025-07-01T23:15:58","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T06:15:58","slug":"whatsapp-copies-telegram-restricted-groups-are-now-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/whatsapp-copies-telegram-restricted-groups-are-now-here\/","title":{"rendered":"WhatsApp copies Telegram: restricted groups are now here"},"content":{"rendered":"

WhatsApp groups<\/b> now have a new feature: administrators have the power to decide if other members can write messages or not. <\/span><\/p>\n

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Although at first this feature seems a bit like censorship, it\u2019s best to look at it another way: with this option, WhatsApp closes in on one of its rivals, <\/span>Telegram<\/b>, which has groups that you simply join to receive information, nothing more. <\/span><\/p>\n

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For example, this option is very useful for creating <\/span>WhatsApp channels to send news, offers or any other information<\/b> to group members. Also, restricting comments avoids spam and the disclosure of private data.<\/span><\/p>\n

Although in restricted groups, normal members can\u2019t write messages, there\u2019s an option to <\/span>get in touch with the administrators privately. <\/b><\/p>\n

At first, this option will only be available for the <\/span>iOS and Android <\/b>versions of the app. To check if you have it activated, just go to the group where you\u2019re an administrator, enter the group options and look for the option \u201cGroup settings\u201d or something similar. Once here, you can adjust the settings for \u201cSending messages.\u201d You can select who can send messages: just admins or all chat participants.<\/span><\/p>\n

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WhatsApp groups now have a new feature: administrators have the power to decide if other members can write messages or not. Although at first this feature seems a bit like censorship, it\u2019s best to look at it another way: with this option, WhatsApp closes in on one of its rivals, Telegram, which has groups that … Continue reading “WhatsApp copies Telegram: restricted groups are now here”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2041,"featured_media":104418,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[1015],"tags":[1082,2406,1083,1040,1035,1043],"usertag":[790],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-104090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-android","tag-app-subdomain-redirectiontelegram","tag-ios","tag-messaging-apps","tag-social-media","tag-whatsapp","usertag-whatsapp"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2041"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104090"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":327655,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104090\/revisions\/327655"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104090"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=104090"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=104090"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=104090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}