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04-21-2016, 06:30 PM
Facebook has an**unced a new feature coming to its standalone Messenger app that will let users start up group calls with up to 50 friends and family members. Rolling out **w to the iOS and Android Messenger apps, the update will use previously established group chats within Facebook's messaging client as a springboard for starting a voice call with the group's members (via TechCrunch (http://techcrunch.com/2016/04/20/facebook-messenger-group-calling/)).
Users will be able to begin a group call by tapping the new phone icon at the bottom of a group chat window, picking which members they specifically want included in the call, and waiting for them to receive a Messenger **tification and jump in on the conversation. The social media company confirmed that a total of 50 people can be in on one group call at a time, and that anyone late to the call can join after the fact through the same phone icon in the group's chat log.
http://cdn.macrumors.com/article-new/2016/04/facebook-group-calls-800x722.jpgAn in-progress group call on the Messenger apps for iOS and Android
Group calls are an extension of Messenger's established one-on-one voice and video calling features, and the company has said that group video conferencing could be coming down the line, as well. "Group video calling is definitely a use case that a lot of our people might be interested in at some point," Stan Chud**vsky, Messenger's head of product, said in an interview last year. "It would be a big deal if the whole [shakes hand to simulate lack of video stabilization] thing goes away.?
In addition to expanding Messenger into its own self-sufficient communication hub, Facebook has been slowly rolling out new features into its mainline application. Earlier in the year it introduced six new "Reactions (http://www.macrumors.com/2016/02/24/facebook-offer-six-different-reactions/)" so users could communicate their feelings on a post beyond the binary liking system. At its F8 Conference (http://www.macrumors.com/2016/04/12/facebook-f8-chatbots-live-video/), it also pushed ahead into the Live Video and broadcasting (http://www.macrumors.com/2016/04/06/facebook-video-live-broadcasts/) features introduced to a handful of prominent celebrities last summer, and expanded to wide use this month.
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Users will be able to begin a group call by tapping the new phone icon at the bottom of a group chat window, picking which members they specifically want included in the call, and waiting for them to receive a Messenger **tification and jump in on the conversation. The social media company confirmed that a total of 50 people can be in on one group call at a time, and that anyone late to the call can join after the fact through the same phone icon in the group's chat log.
http://cdn.macrumors.com/article-new/2016/04/facebook-group-calls-800x722.jpgAn in-progress group call on the Messenger apps for iOS and Android
Group calls are an extension of Messenger's established one-on-one voice and video calling features, and the company has said that group video conferencing could be coming down the line, as well. "Group video calling is definitely a use case that a lot of our people might be interested in at some point," Stan Chud**vsky, Messenger's head of product, said in an interview last year. "It would be a big deal if the whole [shakes hand to simulate lack of video stabilization] thing goes away.?
In addition to expanding Messenger into its own self-sufficient communication hub, Facebook has been slowly rolling out new features into its mainline application. Earlier in the year it introduced six new "Reactions (http://www.macrumors.com/2016/02/24/facebook-offer-six-different-reactions/)" so users could communicate their feelings on a post beyond the binary liking system. At its F8 Conference (http://www.macrumors.com/2016/04/12/facebook-f8-chatbots-live-video/), it also pushed ahead into the Live Video and broadcasting (http://www.macrumors.com/2016/04/06/facebook-video-live-broadcasts/) features introduced to a handful of prominent celebrities last summer, and expanded to wide use this month.
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