Back in November 2022, WhatsApp started the official rollout of its Community feature to bring like-minded people together in a structured way. Meanwhile, WhatsApp has been upgrading communities with handy features and now it looks like such a feature may make progress soon. Keep reading to find out what.
What are WhatsApp Communities & How to use it?
Based on a WABetaInfo report, WhatsApp has started rolling out a phone number privacy feature for communities that is available as part of the WhatsApp Beta for Android 2.23.14.19 and WhatsApp Beta for iOS 23.14.0.70 version updates.
With this update, WhatsApp wants to make joining communities more "anonymous" for you. Previously, if you interacted with community messages using message reactions, it would have revealed your phone number or whether you were the group administrator. However, this will now change.
As you can see in the screenshot above, there is a new option in the group information for the community. With the new update, an alert will be sent to you notifying you that your phone number will remain visible only to community administrators and people who have saved your number.
