AMMAN – The most popular instant messaging application in the world, WhatsApp, continues to add new features to improve the user experience, in addition to messages, as the platform owned by Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, allows you to make voice and video calls.
WhatsApp recently released a new update to the “Call Link” feature and the Call Link feature is now available in the WhatsApp Calls tab on iOS and Android devices.
How does the Call Link function in WhatsApp work?
This feature allows you to create and share an audio or video call link with your contacts and will directly connect your contacts to the active audio or video call after opening the link.
You can share the call link with an individual or in a WhatsApp group, and users can also copy the link and share it on other platforms. Here’s how to create and share WhatsApp video or audio link on your mobile.
Open WhatsApp on your Android or iOS device.
Go to the Calls tab.
Click the Create Contact Link option available at the top.
Select the type of call, if you want to make a video call or a voice call.
Click the Share Link or Copy Link button.
Send the link in a chat, group, or other WhatsApp app.
Each time you create a connection link, the URL varies by 22 identifiers so that no one can guess your connection link and if you lose or forget the link you created, it’s easy to create another one.
If it is not used for 90 days, the WhatsApp call links created will expire, you can also block users who do not want to enter your contact link and save the link if you plan to use it again.
The platform plans to increase the number of group chat participants
The WhatsApp instant messaging application plans to increase the number of group chat participants via the application, as a kind of development to keep up with the needs of users in their different categories.
According to WABetainfo, which specializes in disclosing potential updates to the WhatsApp application, group chats on WhatsApp are expected to expand significantly after the update, where the limit has been increased to 1024 concurrent participants.
The current limit of 512, which still puts WhatsApp well away from rival Telegram’s 200,000-member group chat limit, has doubled, and an increase in group chat limits appears to be available for beta users on Android and iOS.
When creating a new group, you may notice that the member limit at the top right of the screen will allow you to choose an additional 1,023 participants, at this point it is unclear if you can expand the limits of existing group chats, but it is highly anticipated that this will be available with the functionality implemented more broadly.
This extended limit can be useful for large groups, companies or organizations and although the maximum limit is small, managing and monitoring such large groups poses its own problems and this update also comes shortly after WhatsApp has increased the number of participants. to 32-party conference calls Plus the more useful “Call Link” option for sharing group call information.
With the latest version of WhatsApp beta installed on your smartphone, you may not see the extended group limit yet, however, it is likely to roll out slowly as Meta, the parent company of the WhatsApp apps, Facebook and Instagram, pushes more users.
Protect private chats from screenshots
Among the new features that WhatsApp is working on is also a feature that allows users to prevent others from taking screenshots of messages that have been sent as a “single view” on the platform.
WhatsApp application on Android phones – image from Unsplash
According to a WABetaInfo report, the instant messaging platform has released the feature with version 2.22.22.3 of the WhatsApp update, but so far only for Android beta users, and the upcoming feature arrives as WhatsApp is working to improve its policies. of privacy and security.
This feature will provide more controls for app users on how their information is received, shared and stored and the update also makes it impossible for a viewer to take a screenshot of a message, be it a photo or video, sent using the “show filter once”.
WhatsApp stops supporting these phones
Meta, the owner of the popular WhatsApp chat application, revealed that the application will stop working on some smartphones starting next month and the application will stop working on older versions of Android and iOS.
The company regularly changes old iOS and Android variants whenever new updates arrive, and with the recent release of iOS 16 and Android 13, that means the downside of the update order is off.
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