Whatsapp Video Call Feature is now Available for Everyone
Whatsapp Video Calling feature is available to everyone
now. The feature is live now on iOs and Windows Phone as well. Earlier
it was launched in the Whatsapp Beta. Now whatsapp will give tough competition to Skype, Messenger, Facebook or Google Duo in Video chatting also.
The UI of the video call is the same as that of a voice call made
through WhatsApp where the video of the other person will appear in
place of the photo and a small window for users own facetime. If you
want to use this feature you have to update your app from the play
store.
However Video calling is not only feature which is added recently.
Whatsapp had also rolled out two-factor authentication and background
audio message playback in some of its beta versions. To use these two
features you have to sign up for the Whatsapp Beta Program. Both these features will also come to everyone very soon.
Finally, Whatsapp has added 2-Step Verification for the
signing in of the Whatsapp account on new device. Whatsapp version
2.16.346 is now live from the Whatsapp official website or you can also
join beta community to access the beta version.
Now, Whatsapp allows users to add email address also. You can disable
the Step 2 verification by adding up the email address in the given
field.
Well, talking about the setup two authentication, then it is needed
feature for social chat apps like Whatsapp. Here’s what it Whatsapp
says:
If you have two-step verification
enabled, your number will not be permitted to reverify on WhatsApp
within 7 days of last using WhatsApp without your passcode. Thus, if you
forget your own passcode, but did not provide an email to disable
two-step verification, even you will not be permitted to reverify on
WhatsApp within 7 days of last using WhatsApp.
After these 7 days, your number will
be permitted to reverify on WhatsApp without your passcode, but you will
lose all pending messages upon reverifying – they will be deleted. If
your number is reverified on WhatsApp after 30 days of last using
WhatsApp, and without your passcode, your account will be deleted and a
new one will be created upon successfully reverifying.
Whatsapp is making new features available in the app. Whatsapp Video
calling is just close of public announcement and now they are providing
the Step 2 authentication.
WhatsApp is rolling out video calling today to its billion-plus monthly users.
That’s basically the entire story — if you’d like to use it, update the
app, open a chat, and tap the familiar video camera icon in the
top-right corner. The video chat results look like the video chatting
you’ve done before on FaceTime, Skype, Facebook Messenger, or Google
Duo: two faces, one in a smaller window, with a handful of small
features for changing the position of the chat windows or turning the
camera around.
That video calls took until November 2016 to arrive on
WhatsApp reflects the app’s cautious — some might say glacial — approach
to product development. WhatsApp launched in 2009, but group chats
didn’t come until two years later, and voice calls didn’t come until
four years after that.
But 2016 has been unusually productive for WhatsApp, which Facebook bought in 2014 for $22 billion. This year the company introduced a desktop client, end-to-end encryption, and features for writing and drawing on top of photos. The company also wants to mingle its data with Facebook’s, so as to eventually make money from businesses chatting with you on WhatsApp, but Europe is having none of it.
That
it took seven years for WhatsApp to add video calling likely reflects
both the expense of doing so and the fact that many of its users around
the world don’t have access to the high-bandwidth connections or data
plans that would support it. And if version 1.0 looks basic, the company
says it will evolve. “We will try to be the best video calling platform
out there,” Manpreet Singh, WhatsApp’s lead mobile engineer, told me.
Last month at TheWall Street Journal’s
tech conference I asked WhatsApp’s co-founders whether they felt
pressure to make an app renowned for its simplicity more complex to
allow for the features that make competitors like Snapchat more
expressive. CEO Jan Koum told me he’s trying to strike a balance — but
that lately the balance has tipped toward adding new avenues for
expression. If nothing else, the arrival of video calling shows that
those avenues are now under construction.
