Nowadays, cases of scams through WhatsApp have increased. Many such incidents have come to light in which people have faced difficulties due to video calls received on WhatsApp. Now to get rid of these problems, the company is going to bring a new feature. This will help users in avoiding unwanted video calls. Let us tell you that WhatsApp regularly brings new features to improve user safety and chatting experience. Let us know what the new feature is and how it will work.

You can take video calls by turning off the camera

Currently, whenever a video call comes in WhatsApp, the camera is on by default. Users do not have the option to turn off the video while picking up the call. Now with the new feature, the company will allow this. After this feature comes, users will have the option to turn off the video before picking up the video call. The video will stop as soon as you tap on it, but the call can be picked up. That is, this video call will turn into voice only mode. Apart from this, the company will also add an 'Accept without video' button. After tapping on it, the next user will know that their video will remain off while picking up the video call. 

That's why this feature is important

The need for this feature was felt due to the increasing number of scams in the country. Many times scammers make video calls with obscene content. If a person unknowingly picks up this call, his face is revealed. Scammers take a screenshot of it and blackmail them. Scammers extort a lot of money from such people by threatening them. After this feature comes, such scams can be stopped. It is believed that this feature can be rolled out in the next few days.