The year 2022 has been extremely rich in new features for WhatsApp, but the company has the intention to continue improving its offering. For example, the app is said to emulate SnapChat and let you send messages that disappear after reading them. But what is certain is that the iOS version of Meta’s messaging app, PiP mode in video conferencing sessions from next year.
With the end of the year approaching, WhatsApp took the opportunity to summarize the improvements it made to the platform in 2022. Opportunity for 32 people to join video conference at the same time. Long-pressing a participant’s avatar in this conference allows you to mute, then mute, or send a private message to a participant to enlarge their video without interrupting the video conference.
Picture-in-Picture has been on Android for years, finally coming to iOS
Various functional improvements will be made to the service soon. Until now, when several participants in a video conference do not activate their video, it is difficult to know who is speaking, we need to rely on the context and our ears. Coming soon a color waveform will appear instead of your videos Likewise, when they speak a notification header it will appear when a new interlocutor enters the chat.
Also, WhatsApp is testing the possibility of implementing Picture-in-Picture mode in the iOS version of the messaging system. If this feature is Nothing new for Android users, oddly enough, it wasn’t on the iPhone. This “picture-in-picture” mode allows you to reduce the size of the video so that the app doesn’t take up all the space on the screen. In other words, you will be able to perform other operations in your video calls without your mobile device being seen.
Source : Facebook