IANS | 18 Sep, 2023
Meta-owned WhatsApp is reportedly rolling out a feature to initiate
group calls with up to 31 participants, along with minor improvements to
the calls tab on Android, and it is available to some beta testers.
WhatsApp
has made some minor changes to the calls tab. Call links, in
particular, are no longer mentioned on this screen, which now only
states that it is possible to call one or more contacts, according to
WABetaInfo.
In addition, the floating action button was updated with a plus icon.
According
to the report, the chatting platform already allowed group calls of up
to 32 participants in the past updates, but users initially had a
selection limit of 15 contacts when starting such a call.
With
this update, users can now immediately begin large group calls by
selecting up to 32 people, including the caller who initiated the call,
removing the previous restriction that could appear restrictive in some
situations and cause user confusion.
The feature to initiate group
calls with up to 31 participants, along with minor improvements to the
calls tab, is available to a limited number of beta testers and will
roll out to even more people over the coming weeks, the report said.
Meanwhile,
WhatsApp is reportedly rolling out an 'automatic security code
verification' feature for end-to-end encryption to a limited number of
beta testers on Android.
With this feature, the app will try to
automatically verify if messages are end-to-end encryption without
requiring any user intervention.
This process will be called "Key
Transparency", enhancing the overall security and privacy of users'
conversations by checking if they are using a secure connection.