WhatsApp Adds Group Message History Sharing for New Members

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WhatsApp is rolling out a new group chat feature that allows admins to share recent message history with newly added members, helping participants quickly understand ongoing conversations without exposing full chat archives.
 
The update, called Group Message History, is gradually launching worldwide and introduces new controls for how much conversation context new users receive when joining a group.

WhatsApp Introduces Selective Group Message History Sharing



Until now, users added to a WhatsApp group could only see messages sent after they joined, often leaving them without context.

With the new feature, group admins can choose to share a limited portion of recent messages during the onboarding process.

Admins can select:

• Last 25 messages
  
• Last 50 messages
  
• Last 75 messages
  
• Last 100 messages
  

New members gain visibility only into the selected message window rather than the full chat history.

Early reports and previews indicated WhatsApp had been developing contextual history sharing to reduce onboarding friction in large conversations.

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