The social media giant WhatsApp has brought a new feature that will make your life a lot easy. The update is for both Android users and as well as iOS users. Whatsapp enables a user to have group video calls. It was announced that the update will be rolled out in a couple of weeks.
With this feature in WhatsApp you can now add as many as four group members to join a video call on the messaging platform. If you use a smartphone which runs on Android then you should look for the latest update, which is 2.18.145 and ahead. If you are using updated version of WhatsApp then you will have to use the new feature. Only a handful of users get to use the new feature. And the new feature cannot be activated with an invitation system.
If you use an Apple device, then look for WhatsApp version 2.18.52 for iOS. However, you need to be very lucky to use the new feature.
How to check if your WhatsApp has this new feature:
Step 1: Open WhatsApp
Step 2: Select a participant you wish to call.
Step 3: Do a normal call.
Step 4: Check if there is a new button “Add participant”
Step 5: If there is, then you can now have group calls if you don’t, then you cannot.
WhatsApp confirmed that they are working on a version to enable group video calls. This was confirmed in February that this new feature will be available for the messaging app in future. Then at their annual F8 developers’ conference, Facebook mentioned that a bunch of new features will be headed to WhatsApp including support for group video calling in the coming weeks. This feature is live and can be seen by few users.
