COVID-19 pandemic has forced us to an unprecedented situation with new normal giving a beat to the regular normal (pre coronavirus days) it is now time to adapt. The culture of virtual meeting and work from home amid pandemic video calling has exceedingly become popular among the people. Over a period of months, Zoom has maintained an unhindered monopoly by providing its users all the basic and engaging features without paying anything in return.

To make users experience better and hassle free video calls, now the company has introduced several new updates for its Android users. The slew of new modifications includes video calling background, audio sharing, breakout room, enhanced chat features and many bug fixes.   

Zoom’s latest features

1. Virtual background: The virtual video-calling update will now allow users to set a virtual background while on a call. This feature only allows still pictures to be set as background while the support for video is not yet enabled by the app. The new feature also enables pictures from gallery to be set as background along with built-in options. This seems to be quite an entertaining feature for users as it will easily help to hide the embarrassing background of the homes.

2. Breakout room: The brand-new update now will give user to self-select the Breakout room, in case the host divides the zoom meeting with more than 50 people into multiple chat rooms.

3. Audio sharing: During the screen sharing, Zoom on Android will allow audio sharing without any interference from the microphone. It will also allow Calendar syncing for getting timely reminders of the meetings. Besides that, the app also brings in enhanced scheduling through default settings.

4. Enhances chat features: In addition, Chat features have also received impressive updates consisting of the option of hiding Chabot’s in IM list while enabling the facility of marking images and files as ‘unread’. Some new introductions also enhance link preview along with enhanced search options.