WhatsApp Beta for Android enables quick switch from Voice to Video Call
Video calling has become a crucial part of any popular messaging app. As with WhatsApp, over 100 million calls are made per day on the platform.
Though till now WhatsApp supports both voice and video calls, and it has been rumoured for months that WhatsApp is testing a new feature that will allow users to switch between voice calls and video calls. The feature is now finally available on beta (v2.18.4) for Android (for now), and lets users switch between calls at the tap of a button.
If you are in the middle of a WhatsApp voice call and want to switch to a video call, you just need to tap that button to make the switch. Tapping the button will simply send a request to the person on the other side, asking for a confirmation to switch to video call.
If the request is accepted, the call will be switched. If the offer is declined, the voice call will continue as normal. Currently in WhatsApp, you need to end a voice call to make a video call. WhatsApp calls are currently only available for one-on-one conversations but it might allow group chats in the near future.
These features are expected to rollout in sooner updates to the app.
This new WhatsApp feature was spotted by WABetaInfo, a trusted source which tracks changes to the popular chat app. It said that the feature is only available to those who have signed up for the beta version of WhatsApp.
Recently, WABetaInfo reported that WhatsApp mistakenly rolled out the 'Reply Privately' feature in a beta update that allowed users to privately send a message to a participant in a group without anyone else knowing about it.
Watcher of the popular chat app @WABetaInfo said that the feature appeared and was subsequently dropped from the beta version of the app, confirming that the developers mistakenly enabled the feature.
WABetaInfo also leaked the details of some upcoming features that WhatsApp was developing for web and desktop namely tap to unblock and a picture-in-picture (PIP) mode.
If the request is accepted, the call will be switched. If the offer is declined, the voice call will continue as normal. Currently in WhatsApp, you need to end a voice call to make a video call. WhatsApp calls are currently only available for one-on-one conversations but it might allow group chats in the near future.
These features are expected to rollout in sooner updates to the app.
This new WhatsApp feature was spotted by WABetaInfo, a trusted source which tracks changes to the popular chat app. It said that the feature is only available to those who have signed up for the beta version of WhatsApp.
Image Credits: WABetaInfo
Recently, WABetaInfo reported that WhatsApp mistakenly rolled out the 'Reply Privately' feature in a beta update that allowed users to privately send a message to a participant in a group without anyone else knowing about it.
Watcher of the popular chat app @WABetaInfo said that the feature appeared and was subsequently dropped from the beta version of the app, confirming that the developers mistakenly enabled the feature.
WABetaInfo also leaked the details of some upcoming features that WhatsApp was developing for web and desktop namely tap to unblock and a picture-in-picture (PIP) mode.
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