Google Messages will support WhatsApp video calls
Google Messages is working on an intriguing integration with WhatsApp. As revealed through an APK teardown of the latest version of the Google Messages app, the ability to make a WhatsApp video call directly from Messages is coming.
If both you and the person you're chatting with in Messages have WhatsApp, you'll get a new option in the top right menu: a video icon, which, if you tap, says WhatsApp Video Call.
Tapping on that will directly initiate the video call in WhatsApp. This is currently only for one-on-one chats. For group chats (or if the contact you're talking to one-on-one doesn't have WhatsApp), the video call option in Messages will default to Google Meet.
Of course, the exact behavior could change between now and the release of the WhatsApp video call integration. Hopefully, Messages will give you the option to either use WhatsApp or Meet for video calls - since some people might want to use Meet to video call people who have WhatsApp as well.
It's unclear when this feature is launching, but it is in active development, so it will probably arrive within the next few weeks.
Reader comments
This is why I complained that RCS is not really a standard when only Google is shoehorning it everywhere through their data hoarding schemes and no one else wants to have any part of it, not even ISP's who already have to provide SMS service as ...
- 1 hour ago
- 39n
- Anonymous
I have no idea what you're talking about, been receiving both RCS and standard SMS messages with it just fine for a long time now, never seen anyone else complain about it. I'd say check your settings to see if you disabled something or d...
- 1 hour ago
- B}K
- MoE1 0
Google messages don't even support messages to android messages, how about they fix that first. The rcs function is terrible. If you don't use Google texts app you dont get texts sent from Google texts apps. I have missed so many messages f...
- 4 hours ago
- EP%