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WhatsApp to test monthly cap for unsanswered messages
WhatsApp targets high-volume spammers with monthly message caps for unanswered chats, banning over 6.8 million scam accounts in early 2025, company said.
- Meta has confirmed it will soon begin testing a monthly limit on how many messages users and businesses can send to people who haven't replied.
- Earlier this year, WhatsApp started experimenting with broadcast-message caps as part of Meta's efforts to tackle spam affecting its more than 3 billion users, after adding unsubscribe options last year and testing business message limits in July 2024.
- As accounts approach the threshold, the app will display a warning pop-up showing the count, and all messages to recipients count toward the monthly cap unless replied messages remove them.
- The experiment is expanding to more than a dozen countries including India with over 500 million users, and Meta told TechCrunch the test will be live in multiple countries in the coming weeks; WhatsApp banned over 6.8 million accounts in the first half of 2025.
- The limits are designed to curb spam and target high-volume blasting, as WhatsApp says average users won't usually reach the limit or see their messaging experience affected.
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