X Gets Video And Audio Calling: How To Disable It And Choose Who Can Call You – News18

Elon Musk’s X (previously Twitter) has lastly added help for video and audio calling after the characteristic had been rumoured to be coming to the app for months. The characteristic is at present solely obtainable for X Premium (Twitter Blue) customers and solely on iOS in the meanwhile. However, in line with X, the help ought to quickly come to Android as effectively.

“We’re releasing a new way of communicating on X, Audio and Video Calling. Audio and Video calling is now available on iOS and will soon be available on Android,” X stated in a help web page.

Notably, in case you are a free person, you possibly can nonetheless obtain calls, and customers are in a position to decide on who can name them from the Direct Messaging settings. X notes that by default, customers can obtain calls from the accounts they observe or have of their handle e-book. Additionally, there’s one other prerequisite: to name a person, you should have despatched them a DM, and so they will need to have despatched you a DM “at least once before.”

As talked about earlier, you possibly can management who can name you, and this characteristic could also be off-placing for a lot of customers. Therefore, right here, let’s see find out how to  disable the video and audio calling characteristic on X.

To management who can name you, or to disable calling on X fully observe these steps:

1. Open X, and head to the DM part. Here, within the high proper nook, you will note the settings icon. Tap on it and open it.
2. Next, you will note an choice to disable the characteristic fully, you could accomplish that if you would like.
3. But, in case you simply wish to restrict who can name, you possibly can choose from: ‘People in your address book,’ ‘People you follow,’ and ‘Verified users.’

To make a name on X:

1. Open your direct messages.
2. Tap on an present DM dialog or begin a brand new dialog.
3. Tap on the cellphone icon.
4. Tap on cellphone icon, after which on ‘Audio call’ to start out an audio name, or faucet ‘Video call’ to start out a video name.

The particular person you name will obtain a notification that you simply’re calling them. If they don’t choose up, they’ll get a notification that they missed a name.

With the addition of video and audio calling, Elon Musk’s X strikes one step nearer to its aim of turning into a one-cease store for all issues communication—whether or not it’s calling, writing lengthy-kind content material, posting prolonged movies, or appearing as a job portal (not launched) with devoted job listings on firm profiles.