WhatsApp context cards want to help explain why you got that group invite

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• WhatsApp is giving you new tools to figure out why youre being added to a group chat.
• The context card includes info on who founded the group, when, and why.
• Access begins today, and will roll out to more users over the next few weeks.

Some people are just phenomenal when it comes to remembering others; they meet someone once, and thats all it takes. Then there are those of us who have been bumping into the same neighbor every week for years yet couldnt pick them out of a lineup to save our lives. Its a phenomenon thats managed to carry over to the digital world — who hasnt gotten an email from someone writing like youre old friends, but you just cant place where you know them from? WhatsApp is in the process of rolling out a new tool that looks to help a little bit along this line, with the introduction of some tweaks to group invites.

When you get an invite to join a group from a WhatsApp user you dont already know, the app will now display a context card that aims to give you a smidge more background on what this group is about and why youre being recruited to join. That includes details like the groups creation date, a summary of its focus, and the person initially behind its formation.




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