WhatsApp test brings screen sharing to Android phones

WhatsApp’s latest replace takes a web page out of work-centric video name platforms like Zoom and Microsoft Teams. The messaging app is within the strategy of rolling out a screen sharing function that can document and show the contents of your screen with whoever is on the opposite finish of the video name, WABetaInfo stories.

An icon of a telephone with an arrow stating of it represents the function and sits alongside longstanding instruments like switching cameras, muting and disabling video that seem on the backside of WhatsApp calls. Once you click on the brand new button, a immediate seems asking if you’d like to “Start recording or casting with WhatsApp?” alongside a disclaimer that the corporate can have entry to any passwords, pictures or cost particulars you show. If you are okay with that, all that is left is to click on “Start now.” You can then cease sharing your screen at any time through the name.

Screen sharing is simply out there to choose Android beta testers proper now however ought to roll out to extra customers within the coming weeks. However, it won’t work on older Android fashions, greater group calls or with individuals who do not have WhatsApp’s newest model downloaded. If you have got an iPhone or iPad and do not feel tied to WhatsApp, Apple baked an identical screen sharing function into FaceTime calls in January.