” Click the camera button to turn it into a video call.

” Your call will be posted to the channel and any team member, up to 15 people, can join by clicking “ Join this call. Ĭhannel: Open a channel > click the phone icon > confirm that you want to start a call and name the call (optional) > click “ Start new call. You can make Slack calls from a direct message or a channel.ĭirect message: In a direct message > click the phone icon > click the camera button to turn it into a video call. Mobile users will be able to join any ongoing video call, but will be limited to sharing and receiving audio. Slack video calls are rolling out to the latest version of Slack for Mac, Windows desktop apps and Google Chrome. Slack video calling also includes the calls emoji response feature, allowing you to react to what people are saying without having to unmute your microphone and interrupt them. To make group video calls with up to 15 attendees you will need to be on one of Slack’s paid plans. Now the company has announced that users will be able to make one-on-one and group video calls in the app, a feature it promised when it launched voice calls. introduced voice calls for its enterprise messaging app in March.

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