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WhatsApp could soon rival Skype, Zoom with this feature update
July 05, 2025
Update: June 29, 2025:After arriving to a few deviceslast week, WhatsApp has now officiallyconfirmedthat the eight-participant video call increase is now official. The new video call feature is rolling out now. Just make sure everyone in your party is running the latest version of WhatsApp on Android or iOS.
Original article, July 10, 2025 (7:26AM ET):In a recent response to theCOVID-19 crisis, WhatsApp introduced moreforward limitson the app to limit the spread of misinformation. Now, WhatsApp seems to be preparing yet another feature that would make it more useful during the ongoing pandemic.
Possibly prompted by thesudden rise in video calling, WhatsApp is reportedly looking to increase the group audio and video calling limit. The WhatsApp Beta watchers atWABetaInfoclaim to have discovered a revealing string of code in the messaging app’s Android beta version 2.2.128.
Currently, WhatsApp restricts group video and audio calls to a maximum of four participants. This limit is tiny in comparison tovideo chatting platformslike Skype and Zoom, which allow a much larger number of people to participate in group calls.
There is no word on WhatsApp’s new group calling limit, but if Messenger is anything to go by, then we could see a refreshed limit of as many as 50 participants. After all, both platforms are owned byFacebook.
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