WhatsApp Boosts Calling Experience on Desktops via New Windows App

WhatsApp plans to enhance the messaging and calling experience across devices even better as more people are using the platform on computers and tablets.

The Meta-messaging app introduced a new app for Windows, as the tech giant claims that the new Windows desktop app not only loads faster but is also built with an interface that is familiar to WhatsApp and Windows users.

Through the new app, Windows users can host group video calls with up to eight people and audio calls with up to 32 people.

Earlier this month, media reports revealed that WhatsApp aims to launch two new features exclusive to iOS users, including a tool that lets users extract text from images while the other will enable them to set voice notes as a status update.

The announced features have apparently been under testing for some time but they are now more widely available for all iPhone users.

WABetaInfo reported that WhatsApp started rolling out the ability to extract text from images to all iPhone users running iOS 16. The software version is mandatory because the feature uses iOS 16 APIs to detect and extract text from images.