On channels, hitting the Call button prompts you name the call and then wait for others to join. They say something you agree with, and you hit the heart or smile so they know without interrupting them.
The emoji pop up on top of your profile picture in the corner. Slack didn’t bring all its emoji along, but the Smiley-face button reveals a few you can tap to silently let Call partners know how you feel. Tap the phone icon and a Slack Call pings your private message partner with a pop-up window beckoning them to answer. Once you’re in a call, you can change your microphone settings (unlike Skype which makes you set that before a call) or add more people to the call.
You’ll then see a phone icon at the top of your one-on-one threads and channels. How Slack Calls Workįirst, you’ll have to download the latest version of Slack for desktop and make sure your team’s admin has enabled Calls in the Team Settings. But now it’s on the official roadmap, though the company plans to get voice chat rolled out on all devices first. Slack says that video chat is also in the works, which it first announced last year after acquiring Screenhero.
Slack Calls just need to be enabled by your team’s admin, are super easy to use, and blend naturally into the Slack experience. Slack already offered integrations with voice calling apps like Skype, Google Hangouts, Zoom, and Bluejeans, but those required a separate installation and were quite clunky by comparison. Team admins can check if it’s available to them and turn it on here. Slack confirms to me that the feature is currently rolled out to less than 50% of users. And in keeping with Slack’s lighthearted style, once you’re chatting, you can send visual emoji reactions that appear overlaid on your profile picture to others on the call. It lets you start a private Slack Call or launch a conference call in a channel that anyone can join with a click. Today the new “Calls” feature starting rolling out on Slack for desktop and on the Chrome browser. Slack was being cheeky when yesterday it said voice chat would start testing “very, very soon”.
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