WhatsApp To Limit Forward Messages To Just Five People

According to WABetaInfo, WhatsApp will allow users to forward message to just five people.

Islamabad (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News – 18th December, 2018) After WhatsApp put a limit to forward a message in India, the instant messaging app is now globally limiting the number of contacts that a user can choose to forward messages.

According to WABetaInfo, WhatsApp will allow users to forward message to just five people. After the update, the countries outside India will also be bound to send ‘forwards’ to just five people at once.

The watchdog informed this in a tweet on Saturday.

“Forward message limit: 20 – 5 in all countries (before it was only in India),” the tweet read.

The forward message limit was rolled out in India due to the highly-sensitive atmosphere arisen due to several mob lynchings, vicious assaults, and even killing in public.

Two similar cases were also reported in Mexico.

The WhatsApp users will not be able to forward messages to more than five people at once after this new policy is introduced worldwide. In order to send a message to over five contacts, the users will need to make several turns of five people each.

The forward limit also includes group chat, which means you cannot exceed the limit of five irrespective of individual chats or group chats.

However, WhatsApp has not officially said anything on its plan to expand this feature to other countries. It also not clear as to when this policy will be implemented for the users globally.