WOW! At last, this feature unveil, Most people have been expecting this feature including me…have been expecting this whatsapp feature since well, it has now show up, that’s good, great job. I will tell you the truth today, this is one of the features we’ve been expecting WhatsApp to add for a very long time is the supports for mention in group chat.
“Mention” features allow you to specifically address a contact inside a group to get their attention, either the person is online of offline, the contact will get a notification of the mention. When you're in a group chat, try typing the symbol @ and you'll get a list of all the participants in that chat.
You can tap any of them or just type the first letters of anyone's name and it'll narrow down to them.
Select them and the name will show up as hyperlinked (blue) in the text entry box. Once you send the text, the hyperlink will still be there in the sent message. With this, Anybody tap the hyperlinked name to get to the specific contact's page details.
You can easily get this feature when you download this latest whatsapp version.
Download WhatsApp beta v2.16.272 and don’t forget, let’s be awaiting the video call features, stay tuned with us.