Google Phone App May Soon Show WhatsApp Call History and Get Video Calling Shortcut

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Phone App May Soon Show WhatsApp Call History and Get Video Calling Shortcut

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might be testing two new features for its Phone app. Reportedly, the

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Phone app now shows WhatsApp call history integrated with normal calls. Some users have also seen a new video call shortcut on the call screen, which redirects the call to

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Meet. These new features appear to have been rolled out to a small batch of users who had signed up for the tech giant’s Android Beta Program. Recently, the company rolled out a couple of new features for

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Drive as well.

The two features were collectively

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by 9to5Google based on posts from other users on X (formerly known as

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). The report claims that the feature has begun popping up on Pixel phones and some other devices. The WhatsApp call history feature was spotted by the user @Kishore9196 who also

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a screenshot of his call history.

In the screenshot, call logs can be seen on the

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Phone app. One particular call was labelled ‘WhatsApp’ where the carrier and channel information is shown. All the other usual options including calling, video calling, messaging, and history were also visible in the log. This indicates that

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might be working on creating an integrated call log, however, whether the support is only extended to WhatsApp or if other messaging apps such as Telegram and Signal will also be included is not known.

Replying to a comment, the user also confirmed that he is a beta tester and was running

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Phone v124.0.608164421-publicbeta and Whatsapp 2.24.6.6. Interestingly, the integrated call log feature has been available on iOS for quite some time.

The second feature was

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by tipster Mishaal Rahman with other users confirming it. Rahman said, “The Phone by

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app is starting to show a new “video call” chip during phone calls for some users. Tapping this chip opens a page that lets you quickly invite the person you’re calling to a

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Meet call.” The feature was spotted on

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Pixel 5a while also running a beta version of the Phone app. While the app already allows users to make

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Meet calls this shortcut apparently lets users switch to the video calling app while on the calling screen.

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