Now, you have the ability to share your screen and participate in group calls with as many as 32 people.
The capabilities of WhatsApp’s video calling feature are evolving. In an effort to make the platform a more viable competitor to Zoom, FaceTime, and Google Meet, the platform that is owned by Meta is boosting its calls by adding a new screen-sharing function, increasing the number of participants, and highlighting the speakers.
Sharing your screen with someone else might be useful when you are viewing videos together, when you are sharing stuff that is difficult to share, or when you are fixing your parents’ gadgets. It also enables voice sharing, which makes it simple to have conversations with other people while simultaneously viewing their screen.
Additionally, WhatsApp increased the number of persons capable of participating in video calls to 32. Each and every platform is subject to the new cap. This is a huge increase over the previous restriction of eight persons, which was implemented for the first time in the year 2020, when pandemic lockdowns were fully implemented.
The upgrade to WhatsApp includes a number of changes, one of which is the addition of speaker spotlight, which is already a feature that is standard on many other calling systems. It is much simpler to determine who is in possession of the microphone while a group call is taking place since the person who is speaking is highlighted in the row of participants and appears first in the row of participants.
Moreover, WhatsApp highlighted its recent transition to the MLow codec, which results in calls that are more clear. It is anticipated that the new compression will eliminate noise and allow for echo cancellation, which will be useful in noisy areas. Additionally, if your network is capable of supporting it, video calls will stream at a higher resolution than they would by default.