Biggest WhatsApp update in years is now available on your phone

 Biggest WhatsApp update in years is now available on your phone - here's how to find it

WHATSAPP announced a major change to its chat app last month and now it's finally available for everyone to use.

A huge upgrade has just been rolled out to WhatsApp and it's one of the biggest the Meta-owned firm has ever released. This mammoth change affects the number of people you can now add to a Group Chat with WhatsApp increasing things by twice the usual amount.

This means users can now include 512 contacts when creating a Group Chat rather than the previous 256. According to the team at the messaging service, this boost has been added due to feedback from fans of the popular app.

To check if your WhatsApp has been upgraded, simply start a new Group Chat and then check the "Add Participants" setting at the top of the screen. If you see 0/512 you know that you have an up-to-date version of the app. If you're still seeing 256 participants then make sure you have updated WhatsApp via the Android and Apple App stores - it's also worth noting that the chat firm is slowly rolling this upgrade out across the world so some users may get it before others.