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Meta Platforms (formerly Facebook) has released<\/a><\/strong> a redesigned, native MacOS WhatsApp application that adds the ability to make group video calls.<\/p>\n

The app supports eight-person video conferences and audio calls with up to 32 people. Users can also join a group call after it has already started.<\/p>\n

“With the new WhatsApp app for Mac, you can now make group calls from your Mac for the first time,” said Meta.<\/p>\n

“Now you can join a group call after it’s started, see your call history and choose to receive incoming call notifications even when the app is closed.”<\/p>\n

In addition to the voice and video calling features, Mac users can drag and drop files directly into chats, and, according to Meta, users can see more of their chat history.<\/p>\n

“The app is redesigned to be familiar to Mac users, helping you get more done faster when using WhatsApp on a large screen,” said Meta.<\/p>\n

The company said WhatsApp for Mac will keep messages and calls private, as with WhatsApp on any device, with end-to-end encryption.<\/p>\n

At the time of publications users could only download the Mac app from WhatsApp’s website, but the company says an App Store version is “coming soon”.<\/p>\n

The native macOS application is built on Apple’s Catalyst software, which shares code with iPad applications.<\/p>\n

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Now read: OpenAI launches ChatGPT for businesses<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The app supports video and audio calls up to eight and 32 people, respectively.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341076,"featured_media":506040,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[605,36626,64416,2594,68880],"class_list":["post-506024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-apple","tag-macos","tag-video-calls","tag-whatsapp","tag-whatsapp-desktop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506024"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341076"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=506024"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":506092,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506024\/revisions\/506092"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/506040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}