A brand new function has begun rolling out to the WhatsApp iOS app that customers have lengthy needed: Image-in-Image. Now customers will be capable to decrease a WhatsApp video name to the nook of their display screen to allow them to proceed chatting whereas utilizing one other app.

Whereas the function has lengthy been out there for FaceTime, WhatsApp customers will know that in the event that they switched apps on their iPhone, the particular person they had been speaking to would see the video pause, though they may nonetheless hear you. The brand new replace makes use of iOS’s picture-in-picture function to reduce the video name right into a small window that floats over your own home display screen and different apps.

Learn how to use picture-in-picture for WhatsApp video calls on iPhone

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To activate the function, head over to the Settings app in your iPhone, then faucet Basic and Image in Image, and flip the Begin PiP Mechanically toggle to inexperienced. Then make a video name utilizing WhatsApp as typical. As soon as the decision begins, swipe up from the underside of the display screen and the video will robotically shrink right into a small window exhibiting the decision participant that may be moved to any nook of the display screen.

The method is just like the best way FaceTime video calls work, though there are a few variations. For one, WhatApp shrinks the entire window, together with the smaller window exhibiting your face, whereas FaceTime solely reveals a video of the particular person you’re calling. Moreover, as you may see within the picture above, the standard of the FaceTime name is significantly better. However nonetheless, it’s a welcome, if not overdue function to the WhatsApp iOS app.

In the event you’re searching for WhatsApp on different Apple units, see Learn how to get WhatsApp on a Mac and Learn how to get WhatsApp on iPad.