The feature is starting with one-to-one calls on the WhatsApp desktop app to make sure users get a reliable and high-quality experience. Voice and video calls on WhatsApp are end-to-end encrypted, so WhatsApp can’t hear or see them, whether you call from your phone or your computer. Read This: Pakistan Issues Cyber Security Warning To WhatsApp Users To make desktop calling more useful, it has been made sure it works seamlessly for both portrait and landscape orientation, appears in a resizable standalone window on your computer screen, and is set to be always on top so users never lose video chats in a browser tab or stack of open windows.
With so many people still apart from their loved ones, and adjusting to new ways of working, we want conversations on WhatsApp to feel as close to in-person as possible, regardless of where you are in the world or the tech you’re using.”Įarlier: WhatsApp New Privacy Policy Postponed Until May 15Īnswering on a bigger screen makes it easier to work with colleagues, see your family more clearly on a bigger canvas, or free up your hands to move around a room while talking. Last New Year’s Eve, we broke the record for the most calls ever made in a single day with 1.4 billion voice and video calls. WhatsApp has announced that private and secure one-to-one voice and video calls are now available on WhatsApp’s desktop app.Īs per a blog on WhatsApp’s official website, they stated “Throughout the last year we’ve seen significant increases in people calling one another on WhatsApp, often for long conversations.