WhatsApp Makes It Easier To Join Missed Video Calls Via Brand New Button

The formerly Facebook-owned company has added a brand new button in its mobile app that makes joining group video calls that have been missed, easier.

There's good news for those who have missed video calls on WhatsApp due to patchy or poor network! The formerly Facebook-owned company has added a brand new button in its mobile app that makes joining group video calls that have been missed much easier. With the quote, “Join Whenever, Never Miss a Moment!”, the new button adds the capability of connecting with the ongoing video call if the user has missed it due to some reason. This is unlike what the messaging platform was offering earlier - nobody could join an ongoing group call on WhatsApp if they had missed it due to some reason.

"Need to pop in and out of a group call? Easily join ongoing calls right from your group chats!," the messaging platform wrote on its Twitter page few days back.

The new button is almost an expansion to the 'join' feature which was earlier introduced by Whatsapp in July. However, the functionality of the join button remained confined to the call tab only for voice calls and now it is extending to video calls.

Meanwhile, days after Mark Zuckerberg-owned Facebook made a bold announcement that it was changing its name to Meta, two new beta versions of its messaging app WhatsApp were found to have released with the rebranded name earlier this week. According to WABetaInfo, a beta tracker of WhatsApp, the Android beta version 2.21.22.21 now shows the revamped Meta branding while the rebranded name also appears for the iOS beta version 2.21.220.14.

“After introducing the new footer in the WhatsApp Messenger beta for iOS 2.21.220.14 update, WhatsApp is applying the same changes in the newest Android beta update today, renaming ‘Facebook’ to ‘Meta’ in the splash screen,” WABetaInfo wrote on its page.

Both the beta versions for Android and iOS now show ‘WhatsApp from Meta' in both splash screen and setting menu instead of the earlier footer that read ‘WhatsApp from Facebook'.

Facebook-owned WhatsApp had implemented ‘WhatsApp from Facebook’ footer two years ago in the WhatsApp beta for Android 2.19.331 update, to highlight that the messaging platform was a product from Facebook.