Here’s How WhatsApp Users Can Soon Enjoy Music While on Video Calls
Imagine being on a WhatsApp video call with a friend or family and having the ability to share music and play it live on screen for everyone to listen. Messages may soon get this feature with the latest WhatsApp beta released to testers this week.
According to reports, this new exciting feature has been spotted in WhatsApp iOS beta 23.25.10.72, which allows WhatsApp users to share their screen with another person and listen to music together. Things get even more interesting when you realize that the screen sharing feature doesn’t limit songs to audio and you can also share music videos.
So how does this screen sharing feature work on WhatsApp for iPhone users you ask? You start a video call with your friend and at the bottom of the screen you will see the screen sharing icon right next to the flip camera option. When you enable this feature, both participants in a video call can enjoy audio or music videos.
WhatsApp imposes some conditions for using this feature. First, you need to keep the video (camera in this case) on during the call, and yes, it won’t work if you’re just making a voice call on WhatsApp. WhatsApp is currently testing this feature only for iPhone users, so we hope that the official release is not far away.
As for Android users, we still don’t know if and when WhatsApp will roll out this screen sharing feature, but since millions of Android users use WhatsApp, we expect things to move faster and we should hear more about this in the coming weeks.
WhatsApp has other features in the pipeline, some of which are linked to WhatsApp groups and channels, which is the new focus of the messaging app these days.
