Major WhatsApp group chat makeover revealed to stop messages being ignored

WhatsApp has launched a group chat makeover after too many users complained their texts were being ignored.

The messaging app is working on a new feature, with early screenshots showing conversation threads grouped together separately from the main chat.

This would make it easier to see messages and to have your replies seen by more people in the group chat.

Users will be able to simply tap on a thread and see all of the responses in a single chain.

It was discovered by WABetaInfo, who investigate WhatsApp and regularly find new features being developed by the Meta-owned app.

They searched the beat version of the test app, which is used to trial changes.

WABetaInfo said: ‘Instead of scrolling through a long list of individual replies, users will be able to follow and view all the related responses in a dedicated thread, keeping the conversation structured and easy to follow.

‘In group chats, where discussions can quickly become overwhelming, his organization will save users from the effort of scrolling through the entire chat history to find one specific response.

‘As they can easily navigate through threads and focus on relevant conversations without losing context.’

Apple’s iMessages has offered threaded conversations for a while, as well as Facebook’s Messenger app.

WABetaInfo said: ‘This feature is expected to be released in a future update for individual conversations, group chats, communities, and channels.’

But there is no guarantee the feature will make it to the live version of the app, as it has so far only been tested.

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