{"id":182509,"date":"2019-12-07T05:36:31","date_gmt":"2019-12-06T21:36:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/?guid=6ae5a4baf8c95b4dae02cade944b5c17"},"modified":"2019-12-07T05:36:31","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T21:36:31","slug":"multiple-calls-on-whatsapp-just-got-less-confusing-thanks-to-call-waiting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/2019\/12\/07\/multiple-calls-on-whatsapp-just-got-less-confusing-thanks-to-call-waiting\/","title":{"rendered":"Multiple calls on WhatsApp just got less confusing thanks to call waiting"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field-items\">\n<div class=\"field-item even\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidcentral.com\/whatsapp-making-multiple-calls-less-confusing-call-waiting\" title=\"Multiple calls on WhatsApp just got less confusing thanks to call waiting\" georiot-ignore=\"true\" class=\"norewrite\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.androidcentral.com\/sites\/androidcentral.com\/files\/styles\/large_wm_brw\/public\/article_images\/2018\/02\/whatsapp-hero-4.jpg?w=640&#038;ssl=1\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"intro\">There&#8217;s also a fix for battery issues on OnePlus phones.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"aside news-summary\">What you need to know<\/h2>\n<ul class=\"end\">\n<li>WhatsApp&#8217;s latest update adds calling waiting to the app.<\/li>\n<li>If you receive a second call while you&#8217;re already talking to someone, the call won&#8217;t automatically get rejected.<\/li>\n<li>You&#8217;ll now get a notification for the call, and the option to end your current call to switch to the second one.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>WhatsApp just got a really neat feature with its latest update. And I&#8217;m not referring to the new [Any.do integration](\/WhatsApp is making multiple calls less confusing with call waiting) that lets you automatically create reminders using the messaging app, though that&#8217;s pretty cool, too. No, I&#8217;m talking about call waiting support (via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.androidpolice.com\/2019\/12\/06\/whatsapp-finally-adds-call-waiting-but-without-call-holding-apk-download\/\" georiot-ignore=\"true\" class=\"norewrite\"><em>Android Police<\/em><\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Previously, when you received a call while you were already on one, WhatsApp would automatically reject it for you, and notify the person on the other side with a message I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;ve already seen more than once: &#8220;[Your contact&#8217;s name] is on another call.&#8221; The recipient, in this case, would only receive an addition to their list of missed calls.<\/p>\n<p>Well, no more. With the latest update to the app &mdash; version 2.19.352, if you&#8217;re keen on keeping count &mdash; WhatsApp will now let the call go through even if you&#8217;re is already on a call. And you&#8217;ll be presented with a drop-down banner with the option of rejecting the incoming call or ditching your current interlocutor by ending the call and accepting the new one.<\/p>\n<p>The only thing that&#8217;s missing is a call holding option, so you could keep the current caller on the line while you strike up a quick chat with the interjecting one.<\/p>\n<p>While that feature&#8217;s still MIA, WhatsApp engineers have been working overtime on adding new features to the app in recent months. It recently got new options that let you <a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidcentral.com\/latest-whatsapp-update-lets-you-control-who-can-add-you-group\" georiot-ignore=\"true\" class=\"norewrite\">choose who can add you to groups<\/a>. You can also finally unlock WhatsApp with your fingerprints. And the bug that was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidcentral.com\/oneplus-phone-batteries-are-being-decimated-whatsapp\" georiot-ignore=\"true\" class=\"norewrite\">decimating OnePlus batteries<\/a>? A thing of the past. And if all that&#8217;s not enough to appease you, the Facebook-owned entity is also working on bringing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidcentral.com\/whatsapps-upcoming-delete-messages-feature-will-let-you-send-self-destructing-messages\" georiot-ignore=\"true\" class=\"norewrite\">automatically disappearing messages<\/a> to the chat platform.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidcentral.com\/i-finally-gave-hangouts-whatsapp\" title=\"\" class=\"cta large norewrite\" georiot-ignore=\"true\">I finally gave up on Hangouts for WhatsApp, and now I wonder what took me so long<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/androidcentral\/~4\/m3penA11wL8\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s also a fix for battery issues on OnePlus phones.<\/p>\n<p>What you need to know<\/p>\n<p>WhatsApp&#8217;s latest update adds calling waiting to the app.<br \/>\nIf you receive a second call while you&#8217;re already talking to someone, the call won&#8217;t automatically get rejected.<br \/>\nYou&#8217;ll now get a notification for the call, and the option to end your current call to switch to the second one.<\/p>\n<p>WhatsApp just got a really neat feature with its latest update. And I&#8217;m not referring to the new [Any.do integration](\/WhatsApp is making multiple calls less confusing with call waiting) that lets you automatically create reminders using the messaging app, though that&#8217;s pretty cool, too. No, I&#8217;m talking about call waiting support (via Android Police).<\/p>\n<p>Previously, when you received a call while you were already on one, WhatsApp would automatically reject it for you, and notify the person on the other side with a message I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;ve already seen more than once: &#8220;[Your contact&#8217;s name] is on another call.&#8221; The recipient, &#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/2019\/12\/07\/multiple-calls-on-whatsapp-just-got-less-confusing-thanks-to-call-waiting\/\">\u95b1\u8b80\u5168\u6587 <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":837,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"slim_seo":[],"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[451,2,7],"tags":[398,402,397,414,413,410,409,407,408,406,399,400,394,10,401,396,403,412,411,395,405,404,457,455,454,456],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7prtj-LtH","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182509"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/837"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182509"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":182510,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182509\/revisions\/182510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}