Although WhatsApp was originally a text messaging application, like the vast majority of services of this type evolved over time offer voice calls first and then video calls. This type of communication was not often used by most users, but the arrival of the pandemic, which forced us to remain closed and reduce social contact to a minimum, was the catalyst for this communication format.

In this way, a large number of users of all profiles began to make video calls with family, friends, work colleagues, professional contacts… and although the worst days of the pandemic are fortunately far behind us, the habit of communicating remotely via Video via smartphone has endured and everything indicates that that it will not change over time, as more and more people have become accustomed to it.

One direct consequence is that of course we discovered new needs It is directly or indirectly related to video calls, and one of the most present for some time is the ability to continue to perform other operations on the phone while we are conversing. Whether it is to check the data related to the conversation because we received an urgent message but we don’t want to end the call because it is a trivial conversation and we can do other things at the same time or for any other reason, to limit the device to one activity when the user could do two or more, it’s a limit that’s a bit difficult to understand.

They thought the same thing some time ago at Meta, which has been working on this advancement for some time and which is finally coming to all iPhone users. And just as we can read in the list of news of the latest version in the App Store, WhatsApp for iOS now allows you to use Picture-in-Picture mode during a video call. This way, we can continue to use the iPhone for other purposes without affecting the conversation.

Now, when we switched to another app with an active video call, the video was paused, so our partner stopped receiving our image. Now, thanks to PiP mode, We can still see the image of the video call in a frame in one of the corners of the screen and also our video signal will not stop, so the subscriber will continue to receive our video signal without interruption.