WhatsApp will enable profile icons in group chats for these users: Learn more
After rolling out profile icons in group chats for iPhone users, the popular Meta-owned instant messaging app WhatsApp has finally brought the feature to Android users. It is already available to some lucky beta testers who install the latest WhatsApp beta update for Android from the Play Store.
“The feature has already been released in a previous WhatsApp beta update for iOS, but it was under development for WhatsApp for Android, and we didn’t get any recent updates on the development of this feature until today,” WABetaInfo reported. Now WhatsApp is finally rolling out profile icons in group chats on Android.
According to the report, to see profile icons in group chats, you need to open the group chat to find out if the feature is available for your WhatsApp account. This feature will definitely help users to better identify group members and make it easier to participate in group chats as it also helps everyone to quickly distinguish different members thanks to their profile icon.
The profile icon is especially useful when group members have the same name or no profile picture.
In particular, if a group member doesn’t have a profile picture or it’s hidden, WhatsApp displays a default blank profile picture: this default icon is easy to identify thanks to its unique features, including its color matching the corresponding contact’s name, the report said.
The feature that adds profile icons to group chats is available to some beta testers after the latest WhatsApp beta update for Android is installed on the Play Store. If the feature is not enabled on your WhatsApp account, don’t worry, it will be rolled out to even more people in the coming weeks.
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