WhatsApp has implemented a new feature for video calls on the Latest Android beta version which allows users share your screen with the rest of the participants during a call to be able to or display information or content with your contacts at that time.
The instant messaging platform continues to add improvements to its ‘app’ with the aim of offering improvements to video calls. This, in particular, is already used in other platforms that allow this type of communication, such as Discord y Skype.
Thus, WhatsApp has introduced the possibility of share screen in video callsan option currently available to some users through the android beta version 2.23.11.19, as WaBetaInfo has learned. This is a feature that allows display information, specific content or share data with the participants of a video call, instantly and from the ‘smartphone’ itself.
In order to start sharing a screen, the social network has introduced a new icon with the silhouette of a screen, which is located among the options that are displayed at the bottom of the screen during the video call.
When the user decides to share the screen, they will only have to press said icon y everything displayed on your screen will start recording and sharing with the users who are participating in the video call.
This portal has indicated that the possibility of screen sharing can only be carried out if the user gives their consent for WhatsApp to proceed to record the screen, so that the platform will send a notification indicating so.
Also, the user can end the screen sharing process at any time. Likewise, from WABetaInfo they warn that it is possible that this functionality may not reach groups with a large number of members and that users who do not have the most current version of the service will not be able to access them either.
In this same Android beta update, WhatsApp has also implemented some changes related to the bottom navigation bar. In particular, it has rearranged the location of some tabswhich are now displayed in order of Chats, Calls, Communities and Status.
WABetaInfo has commented that these features are available to some beta testers after installing this latest version of the application for Android ‘smartphones’ and that it will reach other users in the coming weeks.