Functions of a WhatsApp group administrator
Surely if you're a group administrator on WhatsApp and you haven't investigated much on the subject, you won't know that you have a multitude of functions to dominate, at will, the groups that you manage.
We are going to review the functions that you can access and configure, to keep group chats under control. You already know that this type of chat may get out of hand at some point. It is in these cases when an administrator must act to stop any controversy.
You may also create a group where you only want to report certain things. It is something that lately is done in schools, with the Telegram app. Teachers create groups in which only they can write, to report on certain topics related to our children's course. Today, that can also be done from WhatsApp
But let's not go any further and see all the power that the "bosses" of the group chats have at their disposal.
The 9 functions of the WhatsApp group manager:
All powers given to an admin are in the group chat settings. To do this, we enter the chat and click on its name, located at the top of the screen.
Group Admin Roles
In this menu we will see more options than in the configuration of a group in which we are not administrators. These are the options that we will only have available in case of managing a group:
- Group Settings.
- Add participants.
- Group invitation link.
WhatsApp Group Settings:
From this option we can determine who can send messages to the group and who can't This is an interesting option, as we mentioned at the beginning of the article, to be able to create a group in the Only admins can write. In this case it would become an information-only group.
Decide who can send messages
You can play a lot with this function. For example, we can silence someone in the group. To do this we configure the group so that only administrators can speak, we make all users administrators and when we want to silence someone we simply eliminate them as admin.
From the configuration we can also choose who can change the information of it.
Within the group configuration, another menu appears called "Appoint group administrators". By accessing it we can choose new administrators and demote to an existing one.
Add participants:
Only administrators will be able to add new participants to the group. From this option it will be very easy to do it since you access all your contacts and you only have to click on those you want to add to the group.
Group invitation link:
Another interesting function to add new people to the group, even if you don't have them among your contacts For us it's the best way to do it. A link is created and sent to the people we want to sign up for the group. These will be the ones that will decide whether to enter it or not.
It is something that we leave reflected in this interesting video that we recommend you watch:
Remove participants from a WhatsApp group:
At the bottom of the group information, all the participants in the group appear. If you are an administrator, clicking on them will show more functions than if you are not. Specifically, they are the following:
Remove group participants
How can you deduce, you will have all the power to remove the rank of administrator from anyone who has it and you can remove any participant from the group.
You can delete messages sent by group members:
Since version 2.22.21.77 it is possible to delete for everyone, any message sent by any participant in the group. If you want to know more about this function, we recommend you visit the following article where we explain in a more extensive and precise way how to delete messages in WhatsApp groups as an administrator
Only administrators will be informed of who leaves the WhatsApp group:
Since version 2.22.21.77 only administrators will be informed of who leaves the group. Anyone who is not an administrator will not see the famous "pepito has left the group" message. For more information, click on the following link where we discuss the topic of how to leave a WhatsApp group without leaving a trace
Collecting, here we show you the functions of an administrator in WhatsApp:
- Decide who can send messages to the group and who can't.
- Decide who can modify group information.
- Appoint new administrators.
- Ability to remove group admins.
- Add new participants.
- Create a link that allows access to the group to people who are not even among our contacts.
- Remove participants from the group.
- Deletes messages for everyone, sent by other participants in the group.
- Only administrators will be informed when someone leaves the group.
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