
Coming to hardware requirements, you’ll, of course, need a microphone to conduct audio calls and a webcam for video calls. If your PC or Mac doesn’t meet these requirements, you won’t be able to video call through the native desktop application. Mac users, on the other hand, need to have at least version 10.13. Support for Windows 11 has not been officially declared, but we believe Windows 11 systems would also be supported. 32bit Windows 10 systems are not supported. To download and run the WhatsApp desktop client successfully, your PC must run Windows 10 64bit operating system - version 1903 and newer. WhatsApp calling is available on PC, we all know that by now, but there are a couple of things to keep in mind before we proceed. What are the prerequisites for WhatsApp calling on your computer?

If you have been selected for the beta test, you will start seeing two buttons next to the contact name.

Voice/ Video Calls on WhatsApp Web and Desktop So, if you do not see the feature on the web (like me), then download the desktop app from this link to see if voice/ video calling is live for you or not. Note: WABetaInfo mentions that WhatsApp Desktop has a higher priority for this beta test. And call me lucky, but I have access to the new audio/ video calling feature on WhatsApp desktop (version #2.2049.10) in beta. The feature is now available for a very limited number of users. First spotted back in October, popular WhatsApp tipster WABetaInfo shared that the company was working to add this functionality.
