This is a feature available on iPhones since 2020. But the new features of iOS 14 took a while before being exploited by Whatsapp. The application has finally integrated the “picture in picture” mode (picture in picture, in French) for users of Apple products. Keeps a video displayed on the screen while another app is in use. Previously, video conversations would simply cut out.
A beta version since December
As the American media outlet TechCrunch reminds us, this function appeared in December in a beta version of the Meta group’s messaging application. But it is only available for everyone from February 17 and Whatsapp 23.3.77 update on iOS.
With this addition, video conversations will continue to be displayed in the foreground on iPhones and iPads, details the specialized site 01net. So it will be possible to navigate to another application. Given this new version of the application, each interlocutor saw the communication paused. It only resumed once the correspondents were on the app screen.
Among other novelties of version 23.3.77 of WhatsApp on iOS: the possibility of putting a caption when sending a document, the subjects and descriptions of the groups integrate more characters, and you can create personalized avatars such as profile photos or stickers to send. in conversations
Source: BFM TV
