Voice and video calls
Call one person or a group of up to 8, straight from a chat or a profile card.
- Open a chat, or select someone's name to see their profile card.
- Choose Call for voice or Video for video.
Their browser or phone rings for 45 seconds, even when Viremail is closed if they turned on notifications. If they miss it, they see a missed call.
During a call you can:
- mute, turn your camera off, or switch camera on a phone,
- share your screen. You see a preview of what you are sharing,
- add people by name or email. Up to 8 people per call,
- drag the call window to any corner, resize it from its corner, make it full screen, or minimise it to a small floating window and keep working,
- use picture in picture to keep the video on top of other apps.
When someone shares their screen it fills the call window, and nothing is cropped. The person speaking is highlighted.
Drawing on a shared screen
When someone shares their screen, choose Draw on the shared screen, or press Alt+Shift+D (Option+Shift+D on a Mac), to point things out with a pen, a highlighter or a laser pointer. Everyone sees your name next to what you draw. Drawings fade after a few seconds unless you pin them.
The pen is for the people watching. While you present you don't get the drawing tools, but you see what others draw on your screen, and you can choose Clear drawings or stop others drawing. In Bagpipper, the desktop app, on a Mac or a Windows PC, the drawings also show over the screen you are sharing, and the people watching don't see them twice. When you share a single window, or present from a browser, they show in the call window.
You can choose your ringtone in Settings. Calls go directly between your devices where the network allows it. To check that nobody is listening in, see Call security. For what happens on a weak or changing connection, see Calls on a weak connection. If they will not connect, see Calls will not connect.