WhatsApp’s latest replace takes a web page out of work-centric video name platforms like Zoom and Microsoft Groups. The messaging app is within the technique of rolling out a display screen sharing characteristic that may file and show the contents of your display screen with whoever is on the opposite finish of the video name, WABetaInfo stories.
An icon of a cellphone with an arrow mentioning of it represents the characteristic and sits alongside longstanding instruments like switching cameras, muting and disabling video that seem on the backside of WhatsApp calls. When you click on the brand new button, a immediate seems asking if you wish to “Begin recording or casting with WhatsApp?” alongside a disclaimer that the corporate may have entry to any passwords, photographs or cost particulars you show. Should you’re okay with that, all that is left is to click on “Begin now.” You may then cease sharing your display screen at any time through the name.
Display sharing is just out there to pick Android beta testers proper now however ought to roll out to extra customers within the coming weeks. Nonetheless, it won’t work on older Android fashions, larger group calls or with individuals who haven’t got WhatsApp’s newest model downloaded. When you have an iPhone or iPad and do not feel tied to WhatsApp, Apple baked an analogous display screen sharing characteristic into FaceTime calls in January.