Applications

WhatsApp gets tough on fake news: it begins to limit forwarding to a maximum of one group

WhatsApp constantly tests things, so when the WhatsApp for Android beta started preventing forwarding some types of messages a month ago to more than one group at most, we couldn’t be sure if the limitation would end up reaching everyone. Now it seems clearer that this will be the case, after the limitation is also present in WhatsApp Beta for iOS.

Three years ago, WhatsApp began to distinguish messages between normal, forwarded and forwarded many times, applying different restrictions to their forwarding depending on the case. The last one is the most limited restriction, preventing you from forwarding a message to more than one group at once.

forbidden to forward much

WhatsApp has been around for a few years limiting forwarding capabilities from the application itself. First, all forwards were limited to five chats or groups at a time, later further restricting messages that are marked as “forwarded many times”, which can only be sent to a single chat or group.

The latest update to the restrictions spins a little finer, by prevent you from forwarding a message marked as forwarded to more than one group. However, you can still send it to five individual chats. If you try to forward one of these messages to more than one group, WhatsApp complains that “forwarded messages can only be sent to a single group chat.”

forwarding

This limitation is already present in WhatsApp beta for Android and iOS, so it is expected that it will become the new standard in the messaging application, until further notice. When applied to messages marked as forwarded – that is, those that have been forwarded once or a few times – it is expected that somewhat hinder the rapid spread of viral messages.

Of course, with so many changes it is getting a bit complicated to know what can and cannot be forwarded on WhatsApp, since the restrictions are different according to the types of messages. This is the summary with the latest changes:

  • Normal messages: They can be forwarded to a maximum of five chats or groups.

  • Forwarded messages: They can be forwarded to a maximum of five chats (only one of them can be a group).

  • Messages forwarded many times: They can be forwarded to a maximum of one chat or group.

Via | WaBetaInfo

Related Articles

Back to top button