At the Facebook F8 developer conference in May, WhatsApp announced it would this year be rolling out group video calling support for its platform.
The feature has just gone live on both Android and iOS for users across the world.
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The feature lets you host a voice or video chat between up to four people simultaneously. While we’ve had video calling for a while now, it’s been so far limited to two participants. WhatsApp has said it’s developed the feature to even work with unstable network conditions.
That means if one person in the chat is disconnected for whatever reason, it should keep the other three in the chat without a desync. In addition, all these calls remain end-to-end encrypted, like everything else on WhatsApp.
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After years in service, WhatsApp has remained hugely popular with it claiming approximately 1.5 billion monthly active users. Four years after it got voice calling and two years after video calling was introduced, the company says users spend a total of 2 billion minutes per day talking using VoIP.