WhatsApp will let you set up group chats without having to come up with a name
by Jon Porter from The Verge - All Posts on (#6E3HE)
Illustration: The Verge WhatsApp will soon let users create new group chats without having to name them, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has announced. Unnamed groups will instead be given an auto-generated name based on their participants. In a screenshot shared by Zuckerberg, we can see one such group titled Rocco & Li-Chen."
Although it's a minor feature, not having to name each and every group chat should be helpful for those times when you're sending group messages for one-off events. I'm personally in a dozen or so WhatsApp groups that are just titled Drinks?" which were set up for a one-off event and were never intended to be an ongoing group chat. Being able to see a list of participants in the chat list rather than a nondescript group chat title feels like...