Obviously WhatsApp is not idle right now. New features follow each other announcements one after the other, to the point of almost overlapping. Last week we learned that messaging will give you the ability to choose who can access information in your profile. At the same time, the company’s boss, William Cathcart, also announced a new functionality for this period. group calls.
By increasing the total number of participants for a single call to 32, WhatsApp wanted to prevent these meetings from turning into a truly disgraceful cacophony. To do this, the app is rolling out new functionality today with its latest update that allows you to: mute participant’s microphone Who would forget to do this themselves?
You can now silence an annoying contact during a call
The process is particularly simple: simply select the stunned person to see a new option appear that allows you to mute your microphone. Moreover, it is his send direct message If you prefer to alert him to extraneous sounds coming from his smartphone yourself, have a separate conversation. Additionally, these options will apply to all participants in the conversation, not just the person who started the meeting.
Finally, one last small new feature has been integrated into group calls, which is one of the priority areas for WhatsApp to improve. Indeed, participantsIt was not reported that a new person had arrived using a small banner that appears on the screen in an ongoing call. These latest features are already available on iOS and Android. If you don’t have access yet, check if your WhatsApp version is up to date.
Some new features for group calls @What’s up: You can now mute or message specific people in a call (great if someone forgets to mute themselves!), and we’ve added a helpful indicator so you can more easily see when more people are joining large calls. pic.twitter.com/fxAUCAzrsy
— Will Cathcart (@wcathcart) June 16, 2022
