If you want to make phone calls, you use Android phone app and if you want to make WhatsApp calls, WhatsApp. Now, if you want to make WhatsApp calls to a number that you don’t have saved in your phone book, it can be a bit complicated.
The solution found by WhatsApp, and which had been on the way for several months, is embed your own phone dialer. This is a shortcut for making voice calls to WhatsApp numbers, whether or not they are in your contacts.
Calling phone numbers on WhatsApp
To want call someone on WhatsApp? If this person is in your contact book, simply go to the calls tab, press the floating button and choose the contact from the list. If the contact is not in the list, the process is complicated: you will first need to add them to your contacts or open a normal chat first.
WhatsApp now enables a new way of doing things: with your own phone dialer. The novelty is already reaching some WhatsApp beta users in the form of an additional floating button in the tab Calls.
WhatsApp phone dialer is like any other dialer and gives you an old way of making calls: type the phone number. After writing a complete number we can see if that number has WhatsApp or not. If you have WhatsApp, we can start a voice call or message by tapping the message button to the left of the call button.
This telephone dialer allows us to make WhatsApp calls to strangers or numbers that we simply have not saved in the directory. This is a useful novelty if we want to call a company with WhatsApp and not with a “normal” call, since we just have to type the number, without having to add it to our calendar.
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