Whatsapp will now have calling feature in its desktop version

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Whatsapp calling feature on desktop: WhatsApp is bringing support for voice and video calling to its Desktop application.

The feature was long sought by the general public and will provide relief to innumerable individuals sitting before PCs who have needed to go and get their phone to get the Whatsapp call. 

For now, the desktop app will only get the update to support one-to-one audio and video calls, but company will be expanding the feature to include group voice and video calls soon

Whatsapp calling feature on desktop, Video calls work “flawlessly”, and the work area customer is “set to be consistently on top so you never lose your video calls in a browser tab or pile of open windows,” the firm said, which started testing the feature with a small group of users on Desktop before the end of last year. 

Talking about which, support for voice and video calls isn’t being stretched out to WhatsApp Web. 

The new feature backing would prove to be useful to a large number of individuals who utilize WhatsApp’s desktop app everyday and have to use other apps like zoom or google meet for one-to-one calls. 

Like the 100 billion messages that WhatsApp measures on its platform every day, voice and video calls are likewise end-to-end encrypted.

Once being infamous for bringing updates to the app once or twice a year, Whatsapp has changed its strategy and has gotten much more aggressive with adding a lot of new features to its app. 

It recently brought disappearing messages, photos, and videos that vanished in seven days period, and furthermore carried out its payments services in India, its greatest market by users.

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