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Stay at home - use your phone #1

If you are being kept apart from your loved ones
because of the Covid-19 emergency, wouldn’t it be great if you could see their faces when you talked to them on the phone?
Many seniors now use WhatsApp to keep in touch with friends and family using messages and pic-tures, but you can also use it to make video calls for free.

1

First of all make sure you have downloaded WhatsApp to your smartphone, and make sure you ‘allow’ WhatsApp to have access to your phone camera and the microphone.

2

Then open WhatsApp and select the person you want to call. Press the camera icon at the top right hand side, and when asked if you want to make a video call, press “call”.

3

Remember, the person you are calling must also have WhatsApp and must have activated the camera and microphone on their own phone. But you can agree all that in advance in a normal telephone call.


This is a free service available to anyone with a smartphone, and it could help you feel more connected during these difficult times.

the link to send to a friend or relativehttps://www.emporiatelecom.ie/support/good-tips/videocall-7