This month, WhatsApp launched a new feature that seems to be completely unnoticed in general, but whose potential is important in very different areas, despite the limitations it has compared to the competition: the ability to organize video calls sharing a linkin the purest Zoom style.

Who says Zoom, says Google Meet and similar platforms, although it is the Zoom service that lived its glory days in the middle of the pandemic, because it allowed to organize meetings through video calls simply by sharing a link: the organizer creates a link to the session, you share it between the desired contacts and they accessed through an app or web browser.

This model, which is also not an invention of Zoom, although it popularized it, is the one adopted by WhatsApp in one of its most recent updates. In a way, of course. If you haven’t noticed yet, we’ll tell you how it’s done.

It’s very simple: in WhatsApp, go to «calls“and there you have it, first of all:”Create a call link«.

What follows is as intuitive as you’d expect: a call link, the ability to choose whether to video call or audio onlyand three more options to send the link via WhatsApp, copy or share. There is nothing more, nor is it necessary.

Of course, you can access the invite from a web browser if you’re logged in to the WhatsApp website, although you won’t be able to create links from there for now. By the way, the links are valid for 90 days.

Among the news that this feature brings is an increase in the limit of calls and video calls up to 32 participants, or so Mark Zuckerberg assumed a few weeks ago before the update arrived. The rest would be, like the others, encrypted connections between devices.