WhatsApp will improve your video calls by allowing larger groups
WhatsApp will change video calls in its mobile applications for Android and iPhone, allowing groups of more than four people.
The quarantine caused by the coronavirus has brought an explosion in the use of video call applications, such as HouseParty or Zoom. WhatsApp also allows this type of services and in fact they are being used a lot. The problem is that due to the limitation in the number of simultaneous members, many people choose alternatives.
That is why the company is working on an update to its application that will allow video calls in groups of more than four people.
The new WhatsApp function will also come to Android
Yesterday they told us on Omicrono that WhatsApp was working on this function for iOS and today we know that the improvement will also come to the Android application. It is logical since many calls are from one system to another.
The new way of making video calls will be implemented soon in an app update, and it looks like it will be sooner rather than later.
When it arrives, users who have not updated the application will get a notice to do so, so that they can join the new group video calls, which we do not know what limit of users they will have, but seeing the behavior of their rivals, it will not be two or three more than now.
In addition, the application has slightly changed the interface of their voice calls to highlight that the communications within the app are encrypted and that even they cannot access our calls or chats.
It is possible that this movement is related to the attempts of extreme right-wing groups to place the American company as an ally of progressive ideological governments.