{"id":96529,"date":"2018-01-15T15:26:34","date_gmt":"2018-01-15T15:26:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sftarticles.wpenginepowered.com\/en\/?p=96529"},"modified":"2025-07-01T23:41:39","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T06:41:39","slug":"whatsapp-will-soon-notify-you-when-youre-mentioned-in-a-group-chat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/whatsapp-will-soon-notify-you-when-youre-mentioned-in-a-group-chat\/","title":{"rendered":"WhatsApp will soon notify you when you&#8217;re mentioned in a group chat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>When WhatsApp adds a new feature or two it doesn\u2019t make a big announcement<\/strong> or kick up much of a fuss. We count on independent blogs to keep us updated with all the cool new features that come to increasingly popular messaging app. One of our favorite such blogs is WABetainfo and they\u2019ve just released data on the latest beta version of WhatsApp.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sc-card-program\">\r\n  <div class=\"sc-card-program__body\">\r\n    <div class=\"sc-card-program__row clearfix\">\r\n      <div class=\"sc-card-program__col-logo\">\r\n        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sc-card-program__img\" alt=\"8 tricks to strengthen your WhatsApp security\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/sft\/articles\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2017\/10\/whatsapp-logo-192.jpg\" width=\"100px\" height=\"100px\">\r\n      <\/div>\r\n      <div class=\"sc-card-program__col-title\">\r\n        <span class=\"sc-card-program__title\">8 tricks to strengthen your WhatsApp security<\/span>\r\n        <a class=\"sc-card-program__button sc-card-program-internal\" href=\"https:\/\/en.softonic.com\/articles\/8-tricks-to-strengthen-your-whatsapp-security\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click Here to Read<\/a>\r\n      <\/div>\r\n      <div class=\"sc-card-program__col-rating\">\r\n        <svg class=\"rating-score__content\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" version=\"1.1\" x=\"0\" y=\"0\" viewbox=\"0 0 50 50\" enable-background=\"new 0 0 50 50\" xml:space=\"preserve\"><path class=\"rating-score__background rating-score--good\" fill=\"none\" stroke-width=\"6\" stroke-miterlimit=\"10\" d=\"M40 40c8.3-8.3 8.3-21.7 0-30s-21.7-8.3-30 0 -8.3 21.7 0 30\"><\/path><path class=\"rating-score__value rating-score__value--0\" fill=\"none\" stroke-width=\"6\" stroke-dashoffset=\"0\" stroke-miterlimit=\"10\" d=\"M40 40c8.3-8.3 8.3-21.7 0-30s-21.7-8.3-30 0 -8.3 21.7 0 30\"><\/path><text class=\"rating-score__number\" content=\"\" text-anchor=\"middle\" transform=\"matrix(1 0 0 1 25 31.0837)\" data-auto=\"app-user-score\"><\/text><\/svg>\r\n      <\/div>\r\n    <\/div>\r\n    <div class=\"sc-card-program__row\">\r\n      <span class=\"sc-card-program__description\"><\/span>\r\n    <\/div>\r\n    <div class=\"sc-card-program__row\">\r\n      <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sc-card-program__bigpic\" src=\"\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\">\r\n    <\/div>\r\n    <a class=\"sc-card-program__link track-link sc-card-program-internal\" href=\"https:\/\/en.softonic.com\/articles\/8-tricks-to-strengthen-your-whatsapp-security\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/a>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\n<p>It was WABetainfo that first let us now about the mentions feature, which <strong>allowed friends to tag their friends in group chats<\/strong>. This is an incredibly useful feature because group chats can quickly get out of hand and messages specifically meant for you can easily get lost. According to WABetainfo, <strong>WhatsApp will soon add to the mentions feature<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The latest beta version of WhatsApp for Android shows <strong>in-app notifications for all mentions in group chats<\/strong>. These aren\u2019t notifications like you receive for normal messages, they\u2019ll <strong>only be visible inside WhatsApp itself<\/strong>. Whenever you open a group chat <strong>you\u2019ll see a numbered notification<\/strong> that\u2019ll tell you how many times you\u2019ve been mentioned in the chat. <strong>Tapping the notification will take you to the first mention<\/strong> and then after that you can keep tapping to go through every mention.<\/p>\n<p>As always with these beta features there are no details about when we can expect to see them rolled out across all of WhatsApp so all we can do is wait and see whether we\u2019ll get to use the features in the future.<\/p>\n<p>What do you think, would mentions notifications be a useful feature?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>Follow me on Twitter:\u00a0<a class=\"ProfileHeaderCard-screennameLink u-linkComplex js-nav\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PatrickDevaney_\"><span class=\"username u-dir\" dir=\"ltr\">@<b class=\"u-linkComplex-target\">PatrickDevaney_<\/b><\/span><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Via: <a href=\"http:\/\/wabetainfo.com\/whatsapp-beta-for-android-2-18-12-whats-new\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">WABetainfo<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When WhatsApp adds a new feature or two it doesn\u2019t make a big announcement or kick up much of a fuss. We count on independent blogs to keep us updated with all the cool new features that come to increasingly popular messaging app. One of our favorite such blogs is WABetainfo and they\u2019ve just released &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/whatsapp-will-soon-notify-you-when-youre-mentioned-in-a-group-chat\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;WhatsApp will soon notify you when you&#8217;re mentioned in a group chat&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9073,"featured_media":96530,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[2333],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-96529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-app-subdomain-redirectionwhatsapp"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96529","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\/9073"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96529"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":328357,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96529\/revisions\/328357"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96529"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=96529"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=96529"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=96529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}