If the person you’re calling doesn’t pick up, you can leave a quick video message. Less business-focused than Skype, Google Duo lets you chat with up to eight people. It can be downloaded onto a phone, a tablet, a computer (including via web browser), or even a smart speaker with a display, like the Google Nest Hub Max. Google Duo: This app comes standard on most Android phones, but it’s also available in Apple’s app store.

Android users can’t initiate a FaceTime call, however. Now hosts with the latest version of iOS or macOS can send a link to Android users inviting them to join a FaceTime video call. To make the video go full-screen again (and get the controls to end the call) just tap the video window.FaceTime: Apple’s well-known videochat app launched in 2010, but until just a few weeks ago, it worked only on the company’s own devices. You can start another app and continue to have a video chat in a small window.

You can have a text chat while video calling, for example. If you like, you can open other WhatsApp tabs. After you minimize the video window, you can drag it around anywhere along the edge of either side of the screen. The video call will continue, but the video will be minimized into a small picture-in-picture video window in the corner of the screen. When in a WhatsApp call, tap the back button (on Android, it's the downward-facing arrow at the top-left, while it's the left-facing button on iOS). Instead, you can multitask while in a WhatsApp call. WhatsApp doesn't limit you to your call when you are in a video chat. Can you multitask on a WhatsApp video call?

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