{"id":224686082,"date":"2024-01-19T13:33:09","date_gmt":"2024-01-19T18:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phonescanada.com\/?p=224686082"},"modified":"2024-01-23T00:58:02","modified_gmt":"2024-01-23T05:58:02","slug":"audio-and-video-calls-now-available-on-android-for-x","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phonescanada.com\/ar\/audio-and-video-calls-now-available-on-android-for-x\/","title":{"rendered":"Audio and video calls now available on Android for X"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: revert; color: initial;\">In October of last year, X (formerly Twitter) introduced video and audio call support for iOS users, allowing those with iPhones or iPads to enjoy the feature for quite some time now. Unfortunately, Android users were initially excluded, but now it looks like this is about to change.<\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>It\u2019s been a bit of a wait, but audio and video calls are finally making their way to the X app for Android. According to X developer Enrique Barragan (via <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">The Verge<\/span>), you might need to update the app to access this feature. Additionally, it seems that any user can receive calls, while the privilege of placing calls is reserved for X Premium subscribers.<\/p>\n<p>Restricting outbound calling and other recently introduced features, including extended posts, to X Premium subscribers seems to be the company\u2019s strategy to attract new subscribers. X Premium costs $8 per month or $84 annually. Actually, X Premium subscriptions kick off at $3 per month for the Basic (with ads) tier. However, it remains unclear from X\u2019s Help Center which tier includes the perk of outbound video and audio calling.<\/p>\n<p>The rollout to all Android users might take a bit, but the feature is on its way soon. Whether you are on iOS or Android, tweaking it is simple \u2013 just head to Settings &gt; Privacy and Safety &gt; Direct Messages &gt; Enable audio and video calling to turn it on or off.<\/p>\n<p>If you enable it, you can also manage who can call you. You have the flexibility to set restrictions, allowing calls only from people in your address book, users you follow, or exclusively verified users.<\/p>\n<p>X\u2019s CEO, Linda Yaccarino, shared the news about video and audio chat hitting the platform back in August 2023. It\u2019s all part of her and owner Elon Musk\u2019s big idea to turn X into an \u201ceverything\u201d app. And it looks like they\u2019re getting closer to that vision because just recently, the company got its 15th money-transmitter license. That\u2019s opening the door for new payment features, letting users send money to each other.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In October of last year, X (formerly Twitter) introduced video and audio call support for iOS users, allowing those with iPhones or iPads to enjoy the feature for quite some time now. Unfortunately, Android users were initially excluded, but now it looks like this is about to change. It&#8217;s been a bit of a wait, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":224686083,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":255,"footnotes":""},"categories":[255],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-224686082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-apple-tips-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phonescanada.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224686082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phonescanada.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phonescanada.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phonescanada.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phonescanada.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224686082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/phonescanada.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224686082\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phonescanada.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224686083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phonescanada.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224686082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phonescanada.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224686082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phonescanada.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224686082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}