WhatsApp now allows you to ping someone even through a muted group chat

Need to get someone's attention in a crowded WhatsApp group chat? Now you can @ them.

Tagging your friend this way makes them get a notification of your message on their phones, even in a group chat that they've muted.

It's similar to Facebook and in chatrooms like Slack's approach, where typing @ and the friend's name brings up a list of matching names to select.

The feature works in a new update for iOS and Android apps, but doesn't work on the web client yet.

In this update, WhatsApp also increased the maximum number of people in a chat group from 100 to 256, so the tagging feature could come in handy as groups get crowded. Read more...