32 users can now participate in a video call on all platforms with WhatsApp.

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With time, WhatsApp is becoming a respectable rival to Zoom or Google Meet.

The social media app Meta has just released several updates to its Calling feature, one of which is an increase in the maximum number of participants for video calls to 32. This is for all devices; earlier, a mobile video conversation could only have 32 participants, while Windows and macOS users could only have 16 and 8 participants, respectively.

Zoom continues to lead since its Basic and Pro accounts allow for up to 100 participants in video conferences (this does go up to 300 for Business and 500 for Enterprise accounts). Similar restrictions apply to Google Meet, which allows up to 250 participants for Teaching and Learning Upgrade accounts, 150 participants for Business Standard/Enterprise Essentials accounts, and 100 participants for Standard/Essentials Starter/Essentials accounts (admit it, you didn't know Google has this many different account types). Lastly, video chats using Apple's Facetime may accommodate up to 32 participants. With this update, WhatsApp is now at last a respectable substitute for video calls in smaller groups.

Additional features in WhatsApp include the ability to share a screen with audio (useful for presentations) and a feature called Speaker Spotlight that makes it simpler to see who is speaking at the moment during a call.

Along with stating that it is "relentlessly focused on audio and video quality," WhatsApp also announced the release of its MLow audio codec, which should enhance call quality and dependability regardless of how strong or weak your connection is.