Find groups, communities, and public accounts on Viber
As you know, the opportunities offered by Viber messenger are not limited to messaging and calls between two people. Many users find it useful and necessary to join the sender-recipient associations available on the service. Of course, before you can add yourself to a group, you have to find it, and below we’ll tell you how to do it from Android devices, iPhone and Windows PC/Laptop.
Viber Member Associations
Today there are a total of three varieties of groups in Viber messenger, which differ quite a bit from each other in terms of functionality and purpose: “normal” group chats, communities, and public accounts. Let’s briefly consider the main differences between these groups of Viber users, since you will have to perform different actions to find and join them.
How to find a viber group
The choice of the algorithm for finding one or another association in Viber is mainly dictated by the type of group the user wants to join. Depending on what exactly you need to find – a community, a public account or an ordinary group chat, as well as the version of the messaging client application used (for Android, iOS or Windows), one of the following instructions should be used to solve the article title problem.
Android
Viber for Android users have all the tools to find groups of members of the messenger literally “at their fingertips”. With a couple of taps on the screen you can join one or another group.
communities
Launch Viber or go to “Chats”. client application if messenger is already open. Click the “Search” icon above the current correspondence list.
Enter the symbol in the query field “@” and then type the name of the community you are looking for. If you don’t know the exact name, enter words that you think match the name of the community you are looking for or its theme.
This will display the results below the search box – click on the appropriate community name. Then press “START”. in the request box, which will allow you to join the group communication.
Public accounts.
To start looking for public accounts, go to “More” of the Viber app running. Next, scroll through the list of options and open “Public Accounts”.
Touch the icon. “Look for”. in the top right, then enter the name of the audience or a phrase relevant to your topic in the appropriate field. You can also scroll through the sectioned directory of the most popular audiences below the area to enter your query search, and find an interesting or useful “channel” there.
Once you find the ad account you’re looking for or one that’s right for you in the search results list, click the “+” to the right of its name (or in the front page area of the directory resource). As a result, you will become a public reader and you will start receiving in your messenger the information provided by the creators (administrators) of the account.
Group chat.
There is no efficient way to find a “normal” group chat on Viber, nor to find out about its existence, other than to get information about the group from one of its members. If you need to join such a conversation, ask one of its members to add your account using the “Information” button. Or contact the creator (administrator) of the association to send you an invitation link to the group chat.
iOS
Searching for groups using the Viber client for iPhone is done in much the same way as in the Android environment described above. The differences in actions are dictated solely by the slightly different interface of the messaging apps.
communities
Launch Viber on your iPhone and click on the “Chats” tab. in the menu at the bottom of the screen if another section of messaging is open.
Click on the “Search” field. at the top of the screen and type the “@” symbol. Next, type the name of the community you are looking for or the words that match the topic of the community.
In the list of search results, find the Viber member association you are interested in and tap on its name. Then press “Join”. on the welcome screen. That’s it: you are now a member of the community.
public accounts
Go to the “Public Accounts” section. From the “More” section. Viber client app.
Click on the icon. “Look for”. at the top of the screen on the right, and then enter the audience name or words/phrases corresponding to the topic of information and channel content you are looking for in the field. In addition to entering a query, to find interesting ad accounts, you can use the directory where the most popular ad accounts are grouped into categories.
Once you’ve found the public account you’re looking for, click the icon. “+” next to your name.
group chat
Since the principle of operation of “simple” groups in Viber is the same for all messaging client applications, searching for such a chat from the iPhone is as useless as in the Android environment. If you’ve heard of a group chat and want to join it, contact one of the members or the administrator. Anyone who is a member of the group will be able to add you to the group using the option on the chat options screen. The group chat admin has an invite link to join it, which you can easily send to them if you want.
windows
On Viber for PC, interacting with groups of other messaging participants, including search, is just as easy as on mobile phones.
communities
Run the Viber client in a Windows environment and click on the “Search” field located above the list of open dialogues and group chats.
Enter the “@” symbol as the first letter of the query.
Then write the name of the community in the messenger or write after the symbol «@» a word/phrase that characterizes the object of the searched association.
Click on the name of the discovered community among the search results, and then click on “Join” which appeared in the field of correspondence.
This concludes the entry to the Viber community through the messaging application for Windows, and you can proceed to see the information published in it.
Public accounts.
Go to “Public Accounts”. from the messenger of the «More» tab (Button. «Three dots» above the titles of open dialogs and groups).
Click on “Public Account Search”.
You can then search for the channel you’re interested in in the Viber Publisher Directory that appears in the part of the Messenger window where your chat history usually appears.
In addition to the possibility of browsing the content of the directory, a search by request (the name of the public account or its subject) is available, which is entered in the corresponding field located above the list of channel covers offered by the system .
Once you have found the public account you are interested in, press the “+” button in the area containing its name.
You also accept “Terms of Use”. in the query box by clicking “Accept and continue”.
Almost immediately, regular posts from the publisher will start arriving in your messenger.
group chat
“Normal” groups cannot be discovered in any way through the desktop messaging application. To join such an association, you will in any case have to contact a member who is already in the group chat. Both the group administrator and any other user in the group have the possibility to add other Viber account holders to the group, also using the options of the Windows version of the messenger.
Conclusion:
As you can see, Viber, regardless of the operating system for which the client application of the service used is adapted, provides the necessary tools for efficient search of public accounts and communities. As for the usual group chats, both the principle and the purpose and meaning of its operation do not allow the messenger to be provided with tools for its detection by people outside the company, and this is a quite logical step for the developers. .
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