Elon Musk whips out X Video and Audio calls on iOS

The basics

• Premium subscribers have the ability to make audio and video calls.
• All accounts are able to receive calls.
• You’re able to control who can call you from the Direct Messages Settings.
• By default, you’re able to receive calls from accounts you follow or have in your address book (if you’ve previously given us access to your address book).
• To be able to call another user they must have sent you a Direct Message at least once before.

To make an audio or video call on iOS

• Tap the envelope icon. You’ll be directed to your messages.
• Tap on an existing DM conversation or start a new conversation.
• Tap on the phone icon, from there you can:
• Tap Audio call to start an audio call
• Tap Video call to start a video call
• The account that you call will receive a notification that you’re calling them and if they don’t pick up they’ll get a notification that they missed a call.

Manage an audio call

• Tap the audio icon to put the call on speaker.
• Mute or unmute your microphone by tapping the microphone icon.
• End the call by tapping the X button.

Manage a video call

• Switch between the front or back-facing camera by tapping the flip camera icon.
• Tap the audio icon to turn off speaker mode.
• Turn your camera off by tapping the camera icon.
• Mute your microphone by tapping the microphone icon.
• End the call by tapping the X button.

How to control who can call you

• Tap the envelope icon. You’ll be directed to your messages.
• Tap the settings icon in the top right corner, this will open up your Messages settings.
• In your messages settings you can control if you’d like the audio and video calling feature to be enabled or not.
• If the audio and video calling feature is enabled, you can choose who is able to call you. You can choose to receive calls from: