The WhatsApp developers have announced that they have released for all devices the new feature for group calls up to a maximum of 4 users
Despite announcing them in May 2018 during the F8 developer conference, Facebook has started releasing group calls and video calls on WhatsApp. It is perhaps the most anticipated novelty for the famous messaging application in this 2018.
The feature for group calls on WhatsApp has been released for all users around the world on both iOS devices, so iPhone and iPad, and Android smartphones and tablets. With this new feature we will be able to make a call that includes up to four people at once. It doesn’t matter if someone is abroad or using the phone’s Wi-Fi network or data connection, the group call will still be possible. The developers say they designed the feature to be used even with a bad connection and as light as possible so as not to create distortions or malfunctions during the calls. WhatsApp group calls, as well as chats, will finally be protected with end-to-end encryption.
How to make group calls on WhatsApp
WhatsApp first launched video calls, with a single user, in 2016 and according to the latest calculations at the moment people spend about 2 billion minutes a day talking through this communication system. Now with group video calls these numbers are bound to increase further. But how will we be able to make a video call with four users on WhatsApp? Nothing simpler, just start a voice call or video call in a classic way as we have done until now with a single contact and then and tap the new button “Add Participant” located in the upper right corner to add more contacts to the call, of course always up to a maximum of four people at a time.
If we still do not see the new WhatsApp feature on our smartphone means that we have not updated the application to the latest version available. To do this we need to go to the App Store, if we own an iPhone, or Google Play Store, if we own an Android smartphone. At this point we look for the name of the WhatsApp app and on its page we click on Update. When the process is complete, we’ll have group calls on our WhatsApp.