In order to avoid embarrassing video calls, WhatsApp is working on a function allowing to deactivate the front camera of the smartphone when you get down, without having to show your head. A long -awaited option!
While you are quietly lizard at home, you suddenly receive a video call on WhatsApp. You would pick up with pleasure, but there is a problem: you are absolutely not presentable. Whether it is because you are in pajamas, you are neither wearing nor make -up, that you have just woken up or that you go a difficult evening, the reasons may be many. You would prefer to stay in audio only, but impossible to choose this option. You must either resolve your head via the front camera of your smartphone, or decline the call and recall yourself in audio only.
But no longer for a long time! By dissecting the code of the latest beta version of Whatsapp on Android (version 2.25.7.3), our colleagues from Android Authority have discovered a new button entitled “Disable video” allowing, as its name suggests, to deactivate the front camera when receiving a video call. This will change your life!
Whatsapp: The end of embarrassing video calls
As you can see in the screenshots below, WhatsApp users will see an option “Stop your video” when receiving a video call. By pressing on it, the button to get turned into “Accepting without the video”. The front camera will then be deactivated, and the call will be accepted in audio mode only. It is obviously possible to change your mind at any time via the “lighting your camera” option, then given it as dry, according to your good will.
In addition to avoiding embarrassing situations, this improvement is particularly appreciated given the increase in sextorsions – contraction of sex and extortion. It is a form of blackmail, in which a crook threatens to broadcast photos or intimate videos of the victim, unless it sends him money or other content of a sexual nature. In India, for example, malicious people launch video calls displaying explicit content, then take a screenshot with the face of the visible victim, and threaten to expose it to the eyes all, unless she agrees to pay a ransom. We do not know when this function will be available from the general public, but, in view of its usefulness, it should not be long!