You can soon answer WhatsApp calls from your Wear OS 3 smartwatch
Apart from using WhatsApp to chat with your friends and family, you can also use the app to call them. If you frequently use WhatsApp calling and wear a Wear OS smartwatch, you’d know that you won’t get any notification for the incoming call—forget about taking the call. At best, you can hang up the call after you have accepted it. This led to a frustrating user experience and was a puzzling limitation since you can receive regular calls on Wear OS watches. Now, if you own the Wear OS 3-basedGalaxy Watch 4or 5, this will soon no longer be an issue.
On WhatsApp beta for Android 2.22.19.11 or newer, you will automatically get incoming call notifications from the app on your Galaxy Watch. you could even pick up the call and talk to the other person right from your wrist. WhatsApp’s logo will appear on calls originating from it to distinguish them from regular calls (viar/WearOS). As9to5Googlenoticed though, the WhatsApp logo did not appear on their Galaxy Watch 5 paired with aPixel 6.
The change has been confirmed on theGalaxy Watch 5and Watch 4, but the experience should be the same on other Wear OS 3 smartwatches like theMont Blanc Summit 3andGalaxy Watch 5 Pro. Interestingly, WhatsApp does not offer a native Wear OS app, and this change is a part of its Android app. Whatever the case, this is a handy change from the Meta-owned messaging service that will make the lives of Wear OS 3 users easier. And if you were also hoping to make WhatsApp calls from your Wear OS 3 watch, that’s not possible.
At present, you’re able to enjoy taking incoming calls on your Wear OS-based Galaxy Watch if you are on WhatsApp’s beta channel or by sideloading the latest beta. The feature should make its way to the stable channel sooner than later.
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