{"id":88174,"date":"2016-04-20T17:52:53","date_gmt":"2016-04-20T15:52:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=88174"},"modified":"2025-07-01T23:59:17","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T06:59:17","slug":"whatsapp-is-finally-giving-you-that-feature-youve-always-wanted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/whatsapp-is-finally-giving-you-that-feature-youve-always-wanted\/","title":{"rendered":"WhatsApp is finally giving you that feature you&#8217;ve always wanted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It seems that the <strong>world\u2019s favorite messenger<\/strong> is working on that feature you\u2019ve all been waiting for: <strong>Video Calls!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A few primary screenshots have surfaced on the internet over the last week or so, which indicate that soon (although we\u2019re not quite sure just how soon), we\u2019ll be able to make <strong>free video calls using WhatsApp<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>In true WhatsApp fashion, this rumor came from its <strong>official translations center<\/strong>, where translations have been found referring several times to &#8220;video call&#8221;,\u00a0 \u201cmissed video call\u201d and \u201cchange camera\u201d \u2013 it doesn\u2019t take a genius to work out what\u2019s happening!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-88187\" title=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/sft\/articles\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2016\/04\/image-456x279.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"456\" height=\"279\" srcset=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2016\/04\/image.jpg 456w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2016\/04\/image-256x156.jpg 256w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 456px) 100vw, 456px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This news could be <strong>huge<\/strong> for the Facebook-owned app, who may very soon be able to compete with the likes of <strong>Skype<\/strong> and <strong>FaceTime<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WhatsApp<\/strong> being <strong>WhatsApp<\/strong>, the updates are sure to be sporadic, and<strong> Android<\/strong> (as usual) will probably take priority.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ll be sure to keep you in the know!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems that the world\u2019s favorite messenger is working on that feature you\u2019ve all been waiting for: Video Calls! A few primary screenshots have surfaced on the internet over the last week or so, which indicate that soon (although we\u2019re not quite sure just how soon), we\u2019ll be able to make free video calls using &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/whatsapp-is-finally-giving-you-that-feature-youve-always-wanted\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;WhatsApp is finally giving you that feature you&#8217;ve always wanted&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2040,"featured_media":88175,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[2333],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-88174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-app-subdomain-redirectionwhatsapp"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2040"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88174"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":329047,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88174\/revisions\/329047"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88174"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=88174"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=88174"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=88174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}