Instagram may soon receive Voice and Video Calling Feature!

Instagram wants to be your phone, not just your camera. And it wants to be better at it than Snapchat. Files buried in Instagram and the Instagram Direct standalone app’s Android Application Packages (APKs) are files and icons for “Call” and “Video Call”. APKs often show files for unreleased features that are lying dormant in an app waiting to be surfaced when the company is ready to launch them. So it appears Instagram is preparing to launch audio and video calling within its Direct messaging system. It is basically to compete with apps like Snapchat.

You can see the files in this image shared by Junior tech leaker, yet realiable Ishan Agarwal:

The addition of voice and video calling to Instagram will significantly enhance the app’s feature set. It will be on par with WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger in this regard and it will bring the network to feature parity with Snapchat. As of now, there are no indications about the time frame for the feature’s launch, but it’s reasonable to expect an official announcement in the coming weeks.

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