The platform said while WhatsApp was known for its messaging features, more people around the world were using the app for making voice and video calls.
Popular mobile and desktop chat app WhatsApp has detailed all the significant updates made to its calling features in 2022.
“That’s why over the course of this year we’ve launched several improvements to calling on WhatsApp for catching up with your loved ones, colleagues and communities securely,” WhatsApp stated.WhatsApp increased the number of maximum participants on a video call to 32, a four-fold jump over the previous maximum of 8 members.“Long-pressing on a participant will enlarge the video or audio feed and allow you to either mute or message them separately while keeping the calls going,” WhatsApp said.
From a design perspective, WhatsApp introduced colourful waveforms to lets users easily see which call participant is speaking when their camera is off.Finally, iOS users will soon get a feature that has been available to Android users for years — picture-in-picture video calling.
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