WhatsApp voice calling coming to iOS in couple of weeks

 

Here's some really good news coming for all the iOS users out there. WhatsApp cofounder Brian Acton has come out and said on record that voice calling feature on the popular instant messaging service will be coming to the iOS platform in a couple of weeks. The VoIP feature has been available on the Android platform for almost two weeks now.

Acton was speaking on a panel at Facebook's F8 developers' conference where he made the said announcement. Also present on the stage were Instagram cofounder Mike Krieger and Facebook Messenger chief David Marcus.

According to Acton, WhatsApp has been refining and iterating the VoIP feature for almost a year now before making it available for Android. It will be launching for iOS in a couple weeks.
While Android users have been using the feature for quite some time now, Apple iOS users have been patiently waiting for WhatsApp to make the feature official for them.

There are of course unofficial ways to get the feature up and running on iOS, but users need to jailbreak their iPhones to make that happen. Screenshot of the implementation were recently leaked out giving some idea about how the iOS interface of the WhatsApp calling feature would look like. The leaked screenshot showed a jailbroken iPhone running WhatsApp version 2.11.17.444 beta.

It must be however noted that currently WhatsApp version 2.11.16 is available for the iOS, meaning that the said feature will more likely be part of a future iOS update.