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title: "Voice & Video Calls - Help Desk - mssgs"
description: "Call a friend from any DM, switch on your camera or share your screen, and keep the call floating while you chat."
canonical: https://mss.gs/en/help/messaging/voice-video-calls
language: en
---

# Voice & Video Calls

Call a friend from any DM, switch on your camera or share your screen, and keep the call floating while you chat.

## Start a call

Calls in DMs are between two people. Every call starts as a voice call.

## During the call

- **Camera**: turn video on or off.

- **Share screen**: show your screen, to this call only or with a heads-up in the chat.

- **Speaker**, **mute** and **volume per person**.

- **Reactions**: throw an emoji across the call.

- **Minimize**: the call shrinks to a floating bar so you can keep using the app.

## Call settings

In **Settings → Calls**:

- **Join muted**: every call starts with your microphone off.

- **Ask before calling**: the confirmation card before a call rings. On by default.

- **Keep a call floating**: a call opens as a small window over the chat instead of full screen. On by default.

Your ringtone is in **Settings → Notifications**. To give one friend their own ringtone, hold their chat and choose **Ringtone**.

*Settings → Calls.*

## Voice channels in communities

Communities can have **voice channels**: tap **Join Voice** and you are in, with the same mute, camera and screen-share controls. Someone too loud? Hold them and choose **Mute for me**.

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