![]() Apple disabled the feature, fixed the bug, then re-enabled Group FaceTime with February’s release of iOS 12.1.4. A teenager found a security bug that allowed users to eavesdrop before calls were picked up. Notably, Skype’s update also puts it ahead of Apple’s FaceTime, which now supports up to 32 people on group calls as of iOS 12.1.īut Group FaceTime has experienced some issues in recent months. On Skype, participants are shown in bubbles across the top of the screen and the end-user can choose whose feed they want to focus on in a multi-paned main window. Skype also one-ups Facebook Messenger, which allows 50 people to join a chat but limits the screen to show only the speaker after more than a half-dozen people join in. Skype isn’t as robust, but offers something in between an enterprise platform and consumer apps. ![]() With the expanded support for more participants, Skype tops the abilities of other popular messaging apps like WhatsApp, Google Hangouts and Instagram, and instead competes more directly with enterprise-grade calling solutions like Zoom, for example, which supports up to 100 or even 1,000 participants, depending on the plan, with up to 49 webcams displayed in its gallery view. It now supports as many as 50 people at once, up from 25, previously. Today, the company announced it’s doubling the number of people who can simultaneously participate in a group audio or video call. Skype is capitalizing on Apple’s struggles with Group FaceTime to attract attention to its own group calling features.
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