Meta announced significant changes to WhatsApp's calling features for iOS and Android
While we await the global expansion of WhatsApp's custom color themes feature, Meta continues to make improvements to its goose that lays the golden eggs. The messaging app will receive Significant improvements to calls and video calls on iPhone and Androidas reported by Meta on the official WhatsApp blog.
These new features aim to increase communication during the Christmas period. Currently there is more than 2,000 million WhatsApp calls per day. For this reason, Meta wants to improve the way users connect with their families around the world with new features.
News in WhatsApp calls and video calls on iOS and Android
The new improvements that WhatsApp has recently introduced to WhatsApp aim to encourage the use of calls and video calls this Christmas. They were incorporated new effects, participant selection system, higher quality video calls and changes to the call interface in the desktop application.
New changes in WhatsApp
- Selection of call participants: WhatsApp has introduced a change to group chat calls and it will now be possible to choose which users you want to participate in. This way you won't have to disturb everyone in the group, a very useful feature for organizing surprise parties or choosing Christmas gifts.
- New effects in video calls: The new WhatsApp update includes 10 new effects that make phone conversations much more fun. New video call effects include classic dog ears and a scuba diving effect.
- Calling improvements in the desktop app: Now, when you click on the calls tab in the WhatsApp desktop app, you'll find everything you need to easily initiate a call, create a call link, or dial a number directly.
- Improved video call quality: This is probably the most important change of all and now WhatsApp wanted to give a gift to its users by increasing the video resolution of video calls and a much clearer image in individual calls and group calls.
Make sure you have the latest version of WhatsApp in the App Store and Google Play Store to enjoy all the new features introduced by WhatsApp in calls and video calls.
Besides these changes, WhatsApp is also working on automatic content translation and a new feature that will send reminders for unread messages. Two features that are in the beta phase and will be launched soon, although what most WhatsApp users want is that the personalization themes finally arrive, which gradually continue their global expansion.
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