WhatsApp video calls now support up to 32 participants across all devices

WhatsApp has announced new updates that will make calls across your devices even bigger and better, including support for up to 32 participants across all devices on a video call. Prior to this update, WhatsApp allowed up to 32 participants on mobile devices, while users on Windows could include up to 16 participants, and those on macOS could host up to 8 participants. Though this is still not up to Google Meet and Zoom limit which allow up to 100 users on their basic tier.

According to the Meta in a blog post, other updates include:

• Screen sharing with audio: Ideal for watching videos together, now when you share your screen, you can share your audio too. In August last year, WhatsApp introduced screen-sharing support for video calls.
• Speaker spotlight: Easily see who’s talking with the speaker automatically highlighted and appearing first on screen

“We also remain relentlessly focused on audio and video quality, for clearer calls no matter where you are. We recently launched MLow codec which improves call reliability. Calls made on mobile devices benefit from improved noise and echo cancellation, making it easier to have calls in noisy environments, and video calls have higher resolution for those with faster connections. Audio is crisper overall, even if you have poor network connectivity or are using an older device.”

Meta says it will be rolling out these new features over the next few weeks.