How to know if someone is on video call on Messenger – iPhone, Android or PC

The Messenger app has evolved a lot in recent years, being video calls one of its highlights.

In fact, these days you can even make group video calls using Facebook Messenger, but what if you make a call and this person is busy? Today we show you how you can know if someone is in the middle of a video call a Messenger.

How to see how long a Messenger person has been on a video call?

You cannot see how long someone else has been on a video call, but you can see how long your own video call lasted. It’s very simple, just enter the chat of the person you contacted and at the end the time the call lasted will be displayed.

How to know if a Messenger user is connected to a video call?

The process to know if someone is connected to another video call is very simple, in any case, it varies depending on the device you have. Next, we show you how to know if a user is connected to another video call both from your mobile and from the computer.

From iPhone

• Launch the Facebook Messenger application on your iPhone mobile.
• Look for the user you want to communicate with.
• Within your chat, you must click on the camera-shaped icon located at the top right of the screen.
• If the message appears on the screen ‘You have another call’, it means that the other person is already in communication with someone else.

Android devices

• The first thing is to start the Messenger application and search for the user you want to communicate with.
• After the above, enter the chat of that person and click on the camcorder-shaped icon in the upper right.
• Wait to see if the person answers, if instead message appears ‘You have another call’, it means that the user is busy.

In the PC

• In the case of the PC, the first thing is to start Facebook and search to the user you want to communicate with. Go to that person’s chat, and click on the little camcorder-shaped icon to make a call.
• After the above, the call will be made, if the other user is connected to a video call, the message ‘In another call’ will be displayed and you will have the option to redial or close the call.

Can a person who is not active in Messenger take a video call?

Even when ‘Appear Offline’ on Facebook or Messenger, you can attend a video call, in any case there is also a configuration option to hide these notifications. Being more specific, if the person has the ‘Incoming call sound’ option disabled, then you will not receive call notifications and video calls made by other users.

Why does a ‘Busy’ notice appear when a person is called on Messenger?

The message ‘Busy’ is equivalent to the ones we mentioned before (‘You have another call’, ‘On another call’). In other words, this means that the person you are calling can’t answer or you are on another call. In this case, it is best to try to make the call at another time.

What should be done to deactivate or remove all Messenger calls?

In the case of the PC, all you have to do is go to the contact configuration section, to do this, simply click on the three points located on the right of the screen, right next to ‘Contacts’. There, disable the ‘Incoming call sounds’ option, in this way you will not receive notifications related to calls or video calls from Facebook.

In the case of mobile phones, the matter is a bit more complicated, making it necessary to log out of your account if you do not want to receive any type of call. We recommend doing this process asto with Messenger as with the Facebook application.

Another way to deactivate calls is to block someone on Facebook, in any case it is very little recommended if you are friends with this person. For this reason, it is best that you take into account the advice that we mention if you don’t want to receive calls on Messenger.