WhatsApp launches picture-in-picture feature for video calls

Video calls arrived on WhatsApp after the boom in user-to-user calls through virtual media. Since then, dozens of features and new features have arrived, among them the increase in the number of people who can be on a call at the same time. Last December, WhatsApp began testing the picture-in-picture function with your video calls, an option that allowed to hold video call in floating mode

while the user moved through the rest of iOS. A few hours ago a new app update was released and the feature is now available to everyone.

Floating video calls are coming to WhatsApp

Function picture in picture (or Picture-in-Picture in English) is a function that came to iOS with the aim of increase multitasking with certain functions. In this case, with FaceTime video calls or content playback. With this function, listen to or call has been minimized and located in small and thus the user could continue browsing on iOS without losing the content, being able to interact with it simultaneously.

Picture-in-Picture on iOS: In beta testing for rollout next year. With a minimized in-call video screen, you can now multitask while communicating.

Until now, WhatsApp and its video calls did not support picture in picture. So when we minimized the app while on a video call, our video would stop.

This was something that didn’t make sense given that iOS supported picture-in-picture.

That changed last December when The WhatsApp beta has started testing the picture-in-picture feature. This made it possible to minimize the video call while keeping the camera active and being able to perform other tasks in iOS. Eventually, WhatsApp has launched a new version of the application in the App Store, including the option officially for all devices.