{"id":987789,"date":"2026-01-26T11:20:20","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T05:50:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=987789"},"modified":"2026-01-26T11:20:20","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T05:50:20","slug":"whatsapp-could-finally-let-new-group-members-see-past-messages-on-iphone-heres-how-it-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/26\/whatsapp-could-finally-let-new-group-members-see-past-messages-on-iphone-heres-how-it-works\/","title":{"rendered":"WhatsApp could finally let new group members see past messages on iPhone: here&#8217;s how it works"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WhatsApp could finally offer a fix for new users joining a group by offering group members the ability to share their chat history with the new joinee. The feature was released via a new iOS update through the TestFlight beta program and spotted by WABetainfo.<\/p>\n<p>The feature was earlier teased for WhatsApp for Android, but it seems like the Meta-owned personal messaging platform is planning to bring it to a wider audience with the planned iOS rollout.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WhatsApp could finally offer a fix for new users joining a group by offering group members the ability to share their chat history with the new joinee. The feature was released via a new iOS update through the TestFlight beta program and spotted by WABetainfo. The feature was earlier teased for WhatsApp for Android, but it seems like the Meta-owned personal messaging platform is planning to bring it to a wider audience with the planned iOS rollout.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,4,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-987789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-mint","category-newspapers","category-telecom-live-mint"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=987789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987789\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}