Whatsapp announced voice and video call support for desktops.
They declared on Thursday, making it easy for the people working on desktop and go off the work to receive WhatsApp calls.
The feature except for groups video calls will avail one-to-one calls for now, but they assure to upgrade the feature in near future.
Video calls work “seamlessly” for both portrait and landscape orientation, and the desktop client is “set to be always on top you never lose your video chats in a browser tab or stack of open windows,” the firm said.
Speaking of which, support for voice and video calls is not extended to WhatsApp Web, the browser version of the service, at the moment, a spokesperson told TechCrunch.
The feature is challenging Zoom or Google Meet for one-to-one calls making it handy to millions of people who use WhatsApp’s desktop client every day.
The new feature additions come as WhatsApp is attempting to convince users to agree to its changing privacy policy which has received some heat on Tech Twitter.
WhatsApp, used by over, 2 million people, hasn’t shared how popular video and voice calls are on its platform, but said it processed over 1.4 billion calls on New Year’s Eve the day usage tends to peak on the Facebook-owned platform.
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