WhatsApp has started allowing users to “dismiss” administrators of group chats.
The messenger app has built a new feature, called “Dismiss as Admin”, that lets group admins demote other group admins, and take control of conversations.
When used on someone, they’ll lose all of their admin privileges, and become standard group chat participants instead.
Only group admins are allowed to add or remove participants from an existing chat.
The feature is available in the beta version of WhatsApp for Android, and is under development on iOS, according to WABetaInfo.
If you’re an admin of a group chat, you’ll be able to access the feature simply by tapping Group Info.
The unusual feature, which could easily be used to annoy other people, may or may not roll out to all users in the future.
WhatsApp recently started testing another new group chat feature called Restricted Groups, which gives the admin the privilege of being the only one to send messages, while others can only read them.
