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How to create a community
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You can create a WhatsApp community with up to 50 groups in addition to the announcement group. You can add up to 5,000 members to the community announcement group.
Note: At this time, you can only add up to 2,000 members to new and existing community announcement groups and communities. We're working on resolving this issue quickly.
Create a community
- Click Menu above your chats list in WhatsApp.
- Alternatively, click the New chat icon.
- Click New community.
- Enter the community name, description, and add a community icon.
- The community name limit is 100 characters.
- Your description should provide members an idea of what your community is about.
- You can add a community icon by clicking the Camera icon. You can choose Take photo, Upload Photo, Emoji & Sticker, or Search Web to add an image. Once set, the icon will appear next to the community in the Chats tab.
- Click the green arrow icon to add existing groups or create a new group.
Add groups to your community
You can create new groups to add to your community or add existing groups if you’re an admin.
- Click Create New Group or Add Existing Group.
- Create New Group: Enter the group subject. This will be the name of the group that all participants will see.
- You can create up to 10 new groups.
- You can add a group icon as well as a short description of the group.
- You can add participants later.
- Add Existing Group: You can choose to add groups you’re currently an admin of to your community. Select which groups to add then click the green arrow icon.
- When finished adding groups to your community, click the green check mark icon.
Note:
- You can add up to 50 groups in addition to the announcement group.
- Groups are open for any community member to join.
- A community announcement group will automatically be created for your community. This is a space where community admins can send messages to all community members in the announcement group.