iOS 12 brought with it a novelty that many of us have been waiting for a long time: group video calls in FaceTime. It will be in this operating system the first that will allow conferences with several people from the official Apple app. From that moment on, all the platforms are getting down to work to also offer this service. to try to lose the minimum number of users.
Now it's time for WhatsApp. Today they have officially announced the launching group video calls up to 4 people. It will be introduced gradually but there are already many users who have been able to try the function, with quite gratifying results.
Group video calls finally arrive on WhatsApp
It is clear that it is not a direct competitor of FaceTime since this service allows group calls of up to 32 people while WhatsApp video calls only support 4 people. However, it is a good start, especially due to the large number of active users who have this social network, which for a few years has relied on the development of Mark Zuckerberg.
For a couple of years, our users have enjoyed being able to make calls and video calls through WhatsApp. So much so that, in total, they add up to more than 2000 billion daily minutes in calls. Therefore, we are pleased to announce that from today it will also be possible to make group calls and video calls on WhatsApp.
The explanation by WhatsApp to introduce video calls is the user concern for trying to have conversations with more users simultaneously. They provide us with a surprising data: 2000 million minutes a day in calls, either voice or video.
You can make a group call / video call with up to four people in total, anytime, anywhere. Simply start a call or video call with one of your contacts, then press the "add participants" button in the upper right corner to add more contacts to the call.
The function is gradually being rolled out in iOS and Android, so soon all users will be able to make video calls up to 4 people. The operation is very simple, start with an individual video call and add a maximum of three more users. Regarding the security of this new type of calls, in the official WhatsApp blog they assure us that they are end-to-end encrypted, so we should not fear for the security of the content of the calls:
Group calls are always end-to-end encrypted, and have been designed to work well around the world under different Internet connection conditions. Group calls and video calls are now available in the iPhone and Android versions of WhatsApp.
