WhatsApp will soon let you schedule video calls in your calendar
WhatsApp is developing a feature that makes it possible to schedule video calls. With this, the service will follow the example of Google Meet, among others.
Schedule calls
According to WABetaInfo, WhatsApp is currently working on a feature to schedule video calls. This option can already be found in Google Meet, for example. In Google Meet you can schedule a video meeting in the Google Calendar. You can then find the video meeting here with the corresponding link. You will also receive a reminder ten minutes in advance.
The feature in WhatsApp would be called ‘Schedule call-option’ has surfaced in the WhatsApp beta, but the feature is not yet active. Soon you will be able to schedule a video call and link a date and time to it. WhatsApp will then send you and the other group members a reminder when the meeting is about to start.
It is also a silent hope of some members of our editorial team that you will soon be able to schedule ‘regular’ messages via WhatsApp. Perhaps the new ‘Schedule call-option’ can be a harbinger of this.
The new ‘Schedule call option’. Image: WABetainfo.
Availability and other new features
WhatsApp currently supports a maximum of 32 members in a group conversation, and we suspect that this limit will also apply to scheduling video meetings. It is still unclear when the feature should be officially available. It will be the first to be integrated into a beta version of the app before reaching the stable version.
WhatsApp is also working on even more new features. For example, there will be new functions in Status that, among other things, should make the function more interactive and varied. From now on you can respond more quickly and easily to someone’s status and also place audio fragments as a status. You can read more about this in this post.
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