WhatsApp Allows You to Mute Individuals in Group Calls
The Meta owned messaging platform has been quite popular these days. WhatsApp has been a staple application for users all over the world. It is a convenient messaging platform that connects people no matter where they are.
This week, WhatsApp introduced numerous new features, including the option to silence others during group conversations. This sanity-saving function seems to help mute those who fail to do it themselves and if you’re in the same room as someone in the conversation and don’t want to hear an echo of what they say.
Mute Individuals in Group Calls
While specific conferencing programs, such as Zoom and Microsoft Teams allow hosts to silence all (or particular) participants, they often do not allow individual users to mute anybody they wish during a session. This capability provides a new degree of control probably best reserved for hectic meetings with up to eight participants on video calls — or up to 32 on audio conversations. During group calls, there are several users.
In addition to the new muting function, WhatsApp also allows you to contact particular people while on a group call, which is helpful if you need to make a note to someone during a meeting or crack a joke that may not go down well with the whole group. WhatsApp is also introducing a new banner that will notify you when someone new joins a call after it has already begun.
WhatsApp officially allowed Android users to move their chat history to iPhone earlier this week, making Android iPhone transfers much more accessible. The feature initially only allowed users to transfer their conversation data reversely (from iPhone to Android) last year.
Furthermore, the messaging service is expanding beyond its group calling capability. WhatsApp said on Friday that you can now choose which contacts may view your profile picture, about, and last seen status, which indicates when you were last active on the network. This might assist keep your profile secret from professional contacts or anybody else you don’t want access to this information 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Due to possible privacy problems, WhatsApp started concealing your last viewed status from strangers by default last year.
