WhatsApp has officially announced that group video calls on the service will now support eight people. The announcement is in line with Facebook chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg’s earlier announcement about the same.
The limit was earlier set to four, meaning WhatsApp is now doubling the number of participants who can chat on its group video service.
In a blog post about the announcement, the company claimed that users are spending “over 15 billion minutes" per day on WhatsApp calls.
According to the company, this is above what a typical day would be for the company before the pandemic. It also reiterated that video and voice calls on WhatsApp are also end-to-end encrypted, just like its text chat service. “We have built group calling in a