WhatsApp might soon increase the group chat cap to 1024 people

1 min readUpdated May 25, 2025Oct 11, 20225:42 AM

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If you are a WhatsApp user with many friends, and we mean a lot, lot — 1000+ — you will be happy to learn that, soon, you will probably be able to add up to 1024 of your friends in one group chat.

As WABetaInfo first reported, WhatsApp is rolling out a new feature to select WhatsApp beta testers that increase the current 512-person group chat cap to 1024.
Previously, you could only add up to 256 people in one group chat, but WhatsApp saw that wasn’t enough anymore, and in June 2022, it increased the limit to 512 people. After all, if you are a big business with many employees that use WhatsApp as its main communication app, a 256-person cap is just not enough.

Before the limit increase, many large companies that use WhatsApp had to make and manage multiple group chats because they couldn’t add all of their employees to one single conversation. And now, just a few months after the raise, WhatsApp wants to double the limit again, enabling even bigger companies to use the app as their main communication method.

Furthermore, to give admins better control over these large groups, WhatsApp is also working on a new set of tools. For example, it wants to introduce a list of pending participants — which is a section that lists all the people wanting to join a group and lets admins approve them at any time — and an approval system that enables admins to choose who can add new participants to the group.Sadly, there is no information on when WhatsApp will release these features to regular users. If you want to have a group chat with 1000+ people right now, you could create a group in Telegram. The cap there is 200,000 people, which should be plenty enough.

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Questions & Answers

What is the current limit for participants in a WhatsApp group chat for regular users?

Currently, regular WhatsApp users can add up to 512 people to one group chat. This limit was increased in June 2022 from the previous cap of 256 participants.

What new tools is WhatsApp planning to introduce for large group chats?

WhatsApp is working on new tools for large groups, including a list for pending participants for admin approval. It also plans an approval system to allow admins to choose who can add new members.

When will the increased group chat cap and new admin tools be available to all WhatsApp users?

There is no information available on when WhatsApp will release these new features to regular users. The new group chat cap is currently being rolled out to select beta testers.

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