WhatsApp Voice And Video Calls Can Now Have upto 8 participants simultaneously on a single screen.

WhatsApp New Update

WhatsApp Voice And Video Calls Can Now Have up to 8 participants simultaneously on a single screen.

It is still lesser than 32 participants that Apple FaceTime allows, the 12-person limit that Google Duo now has, Skype and Facebook Messenger Rooms which supports 50 participants and Zoom that allows 100 people in a group call. Although other apps have already on the desktop for a while now so no wonder they can have many participants because of their larger screen size. 

WhatsApp group video calls can now have as many as 8 people. That's plenty enough for a mobile size screen format, zoom allows more participants but due to privacy concerns we don't recommend it and at this time video calls are getting more norm for work as well, amidst the work from home due to all this pandemic going on, The company also has the data to prove that user all around the world are using Whatsapp more than ever for messaging and calls.

“Over the last month, people on average are spending over 15 billion minutes talking each day on WhatsApp calls which is itself quite a large number, well above a typical day before the pandemic. And just like written messages, all those calls are now protected with end-to-end encryption. We have built group calling in a way that makes it available for as many users as possible, including people on lower-end devices and slow network conditions,” says the company in an official statement.

For the extended group calling limits to be available, you’ll need to head to the Apple App Store for the iPhones and the Google Play Store for Android phones and download the latest version of the app. You can then proceed to make calls by opening the calls menu in the app and selecting people to join the group voice or video call. Just to put the new limit of 8 participants that WhatsApp has, it is still lesser than 32 participants that Apple FaceTime allows, the 12-person limit that Google Duo now has, Skype which supports 50 participants, Facebook’s recently launched Messenger Rooms which also supports 50 participants in a group call and the very popular so-called  Zoom which allows 100 people in a group call for the free tier.