You can make Messenger video calls from your Portal Go. If your friends and family don’t have
a Portal device, they can still receive Portal video calls on Messenger via their smartphone,
tablet, or laptop. End-to-end encrypted voice and video calling on Messenger is now also
available as well. For now, callers will need to “turn on” end-to-end encryption for individual
contacts and group calls, but once turned on calls made to that contact or group will be
end-to-end encrypted.
With WhatsApp, you can make video calls from your device to your WhatsApp friends on their
Portal or on their smartphone. WhatsApp supports signing into five devices at a time - your
phone and up to four secondary devices (such as additional Portal devices, WhatsApp for
Desktop, or WhatsApp for Web).
Note:
We’ll be bringing WhatsApp multi-device support to Portal in the coming months, which
will allow you to use WhatsApp on your phone and up to four non-phone devices
simultaneously.
Household Mode:
You can enable Household Mode to provide access to a subset of your apps
and contacts to everyone in your home. Go to Settings and select “Household Mode” to create a
4-digit Profile Passcode. Then, choose the Messenger and WhatsApp contacts you want to
share with everyone in your household. You can also choose the apps that everyone in the
household can access and those that only you should access (the Portal App store, Settings,
Help and all music apps are always available in Household Mode).
Adding Accounts:
Up to four members of your home, including you, can share your device.
Each person will be able to connect their Facebook and WhatsApp accounts. To add another
user to your device, go to Settings and select “Profiles.”
Adding Favorites:
You’ll be prompted to add your “Favorite” contacts during set-up. You can
also add Favorites after setting up your Portal by selecting the blue “Contacts” icon on the first
page of the home screen. Then select “Add Favorites” and select the profile of the person you’d
like to add as a favorite.
Your Favorites will pop up on the top of the home screen, making it easy to quickly call them
without having to scroll through your contacts. We recommend adding the person you
designated to receive your second review unit as a Favorite, so you can call them by tapping
their contact card from the Home screen.
On Messenger, you can customize your Favorite Permissions by picking and choosing who can
see when you’re home and most likely free to chat. When you opt to share your home status
with a specific favorite, the person will see a Home icon instead of the standard green dot when
you’re active on your device. To customize your Favorite Permissions, tap on the Facebook
profile icon of your Favorite, and select the three-dot icon on the top right corner of their contact
card. From there, you’ll be able to edit their nickname, or notify them when you’re home.
