New WhatsApp rules for “all” users will be rolled out in a few weeks

WhatsApp has explained three big changes coming to everyone in a few weeks. WhatsApp, which is run by Facebook parent company Meta, introduced 32-person voice chats late last year and will expand the number of participants to video calls.

Now 32 people can participate in a video call. WhatsApp has also introduced a new speaker mirroring feature that allows callers to see who is speaking by automatically highlighting who is speaking and bringing them to the foreground of the screen.

The app will also introduce screen sharing for audio. “As more and more people have relied on our products to make calls over the years, we’ve been working on new ways to ensure that all calls have solid audio quality,” said Meta.

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Google Meet has similar limits, allowing 100 participants for Standard/Essentials Starter/Essentials accounts, 150 participants for Business Standard/Enterprise Essentials accounts, and 250 participants for Teaching and Learning Upgrade accounts (admit it, you didn’t know Google had this many different account types).

Apple’s Facetime allows up to 32 people on video calls. Zoom allows 100 video call participants for Basic and Pro accounts (this goes up to 300 for Business accounts and 500 for Enterprise accounts).

All these features are promised to be rolled out “over the next few weeks” to all WhatsApp users. Additionally, the service says it remains “relentlessly focused on audio and video quality, for clearer calls no matter where you are.”

It highlighted the recent release of its MLow audio codec, which should improve the reliability and quality of calls, no matter how good (or bad) your connection is. noise and echo, while giving video calls a higher resolution for those with fast connections.

Audio should be clearer, says a blog post alongside the changes, detailing each.