That doesn't come a surprise, seeing as people have been using video and voice calling services more since the pandemic hit to stay in touch with friends and family in the midst of lockdowns and quarantines. In its announcement, the service said it has seen 'significant increases in people calling one another on WhatsApp, often for long conversations' over the past year. Chosen testers saw call and video chat icons marked 'Beta' in the chat header - now that the feature is officially available on desktop, everyone can use it whenever they want to talk to their contacts on a bigger screen. The Facebook-owned messaging service only offered the feature on its mobile app until late last year, when it started testing it by rolling it out to select desktop users.
One-on-one voice and video calling is now finally available on WhatsApp's desktop app for Window and Mac.
