It seems like Android telephones — seemingly at all times a beat behind iOS within the eyes of app builders — are catching up on one other beloved characteristic.

You may display screen share on iOS telephones throughout FaceTime calls — and, in fact, different video name platforms like Zoom and Microsoft Groups. Quickly, you may have the ability to display screen share on WhatsApp on Android gadgets, too. The characteristic is beneficial for taking part in Wordle along with your companion, taking a look at a visit itinerary, displaying your good friend the Instagram profile of somebody they’ve blocked, and different extra fruitful endeavors, I am certain.

WABetaInfo stories(opens in a brand new tab) that WhatsApp beta for the Android 2.23.11.19 replace will enable some beta testers to check out the display screen sharing characteristic. It would allegedly roll out to extra customers within the coming days. That mentioned, Engadget(opens in a brand new tab) identified that older Android fashions won’t have the ability to assist the replace and also you doubtless will not have the ability to use the characteristic on calls with too many individuals or if the individual you are chatting with would not have an up to date WhatsApp. 

To make use of the characteristic, after getting the up to date model of the app, you may wish to click on the icon of a telephone with an arrow mentioning of it — that button might be close to different instruments like muting. You may then be prompted with: “Begin recording or casting with WhatsApp?” and a disclaimer about how WhatsApp will handle the knowledge it sees once you show sure particulars like passwords, pictures, and cost particulars, in accordance with screenshots from WABetaInfo. Click on “Begin now,” and also you’re off to the races.

WhatsApp can also be toying with rolling out different options to Android customers, like permitting customers to select their very own distinctive usernames and a “standing archive” characteristic for companies to archive statuses after a day and reuse them later, The Verge reported(opens in a brand new tab).