WhatsApp may be on a spree when it comes to updates with a pinned-to-top theme. Last month, the messaging service started letting users pin messages for groups and private chats. Now, it looks like it is testing a feature that allows events organised via its Communities feature to be pinned to the top.
As it is right now, group admins for WhatsApp Communities have to manually pin messages related to events to the top. But WABetaInfo has found evidence that events organised though Communities will be made to be automatically pinned within the community info screen. It’s not quite the same as pinning a message to the top, so it will still take some navigating to actually see it.
That being said though, it’s still a plus for members. This means no longer having to scroll up to look for details on events, and it wouldn’t matter if admins forgot to pin said message to the top either.
These details, as before, were discovered as part of a WhatsApp beta update for Android. Specifically for this feature, WABetaInfo says it’s part of the 2.23.21.12 update. No word on when it will be rolled out to the general user base, but we’ll likely hear from the Meta subsidiary when the time comes.
(Source: WABetaInfo)
