WhatsApp now allows up to 8 people to join a group video call: Details here
Facebook-owned instant messaging platform, WhatsApp now allows
up to eight people in a group video call. The number of total participants
allowed in a video call were earlier limited to four. The change has been done
in view of increasing number of people turning to digital platforms to connect
with friends and family amid the Covid-19 pandemic.
Last
month, WhatsApp said
that people on average are spending over 15 billion minutes talking each day on WhatsApp calls, well
above a typical day before the pandemic.
"...we
see that people all over the world are turning to voice and video calling on
WhatsApp more than ever before. Group calling has been particularly useful and
our users have asked to connect with more people at once," WhatsApp said
in a blogpost.
Starting
Tuesday, the company is doubling the number of participants one can have on a
WhatsApp video or voice call from 4 to 8 people at a time, it added.
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