Voice Calls on WhatsApp Web Could Be Available Soon

Whether it’s staying in touch with friends and family, chatting to business contacts or keeping up-to-date with what’s happening in the world, WhatsApp helps millions of people communicate every day.

Users will soon be capable of making voice calls through the WhatsApp web version. The feature is now being distributed to a small number of users. WhatsApp announced intentions to provide the video as well as voice calling capability available to online and desktop users in October 2020. The feature was made available to beta testers and certain non-beta testers alike. However, it appears that WhatsApp may soon make the feature available to a wider audience.

WhatsApp has begun pushing a new voice call interface. On the Android beta app, the redesigned interface was observed. Only a few beta testers were given access to the upgrade. The remaining testers will be allowed to access it in the coming days.

According to the Wabetainfo source, WhatsApp is not only reworking the caller interface on individual calls, but is also working on a completely new design for group talks. When you make a group voice call, bring speech waveforms for all members during the call, as seen in the screenshots. The new upgrade is being sent out to Android beta testers now, according to Wabetainfor, with more activations expected in the following weeks. The new UI has yet to be seen on the iOS beta app, although according to the features tracker, WhatsApp may receive it in a future release.

The functionality to improve the interface for audio calls is already enabled in this beta, according to the source, and the option to utilize wallpaper for voice calls is also included in this beta update. Users, on the other hand, will not have the chance to customize right now.

William Reid
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