Elon Musk’s X now rivals WhatsApp with video and audio call support: Here’s what we know

Elon Musk has talked about bringing calling support to X for users and if you are using an Android phone the update is now available. The good thing about support for audio and video calls on .

The update rolling out this week gives X users the option to make video or audio calls to their relatives, contacts or followers. This feature is built into the platform’s settings and you can follow these steps to enable/disable it for your account instantly.

How to enable video/audio calls on X

– Open X on your Android phone

– Click on Settings & Privacy from the side bar

– scroll down Privacy and Security to get more options

– Click now direct message

– You will see audio-video calling tab

– Turn on the toggle to use the feature

When we were looking for calling support, we noticed that X has enabled the feature by default, something that most of you won’t like. But thankfully, you have the option to manually disable the feature and you can do so by unchecking the options, People in your address book and people you follow.

Once you do this, X will ensure that you do not receive any unwanted calls on the platform. To provide more privacy on X for calls, the platform is also making sure that unless you message an account, they won’t be able to call you on X using the calling feature. X has kept most of its new features under a subscription plan but calling is available to everyone, including those who use X for free. With calling support now available on X, the platform can be seen as a proper rival to WhatsApp and even Google Meet to some extent.