Facebook is testing, for now in beta, the WhatsApp audio and video calls on your desktop client for Mac. As reported by WABetaInfo, we still don’t know the arrival date of this function, but we are clear that, at least, the company is working on it.
Calls and video calls on the desktop
The Facebook messaging app has been offering video and audio calling for some time, but this feature was never available in the desktop client or the web version of the service. It looks set to change, because changes have been discovered in a beta version of the WhatsApp client for Mac which would allow these kinds of calls.
Based on beta screenshots we see two new buttons appear, one for video calls and another for audio calls at the top of the chat. After clicking on it, a new window opens in which the call is made along with the options to mute, hang up, turn video on or off, etc.
The appellant, likewise, also sees an additional window with three buttons, answer, reject or ignore, as we see in the image below.
We don’t know when this news might reach the stable client version, although at least we do know that WhatsApp is working on it. A function which, although competing applications have already been offering us for years, will be welcome on the Facebook platform.