1) Automatic Meeting Rooms (Google Calendar only for now) - Meetings with internal participants will automatically appear in Tandem.
2) Quick Meetings - Click + to create a quick meeting.
3) Meeting Links - Get a link from + and put it into Calendar (scheduler chrome extension coming soon!)
Meeting Links work like other meeting apps - they give recipients access to the meeting, but not your team. If they don't have Tandem, they'll be prompted to install, then taken straight to the meeting (browser-mode coming soon!).
1) Automatic Meeting Rooms (Google Calendar only for now) - Meetings with internal participants will automatically appear in Tandem.
2) Quick Meetings - Click + to create a quick meeting.
3) Meeting Links - Get a link from + and put it into Calendar (scheduler chrome extension coming soon!)
Meeting Links work like other meeting apps - they give recipients access to the meeting, but not your team. If they don't have Tandem, they'll be prompted to install, then taken straight to the meeting (browser-mode coming soon!).
🛠 Infra and Call Quality
Significant call and screenshare changes under the hood:
Faster connect times
higher quality video + screenshare
Screenshare quality improvements.
Screenshare pinch/scroll to zoom-in.
Bug fixes - Apple M1 camera issue, bluetooth devices.
You can now control the video layout
Max Videos allows you to control how many videos you see per page. If you're having network issues, less videos is better (we do some automatic adjustment here).
✋ High-Five
In expanded mode, click the hand to high-five a teammate!
🕰 In case you missed it
Remember lunchtime group conversations with your team? In-person conversations are dynamic, spontaneous, with sub-conversations forming and re-forming fluidly. Now you can have these flexible group conversations with our Crosstalk feature!
To start a crosstalk, click on the button in the top-left of your teammate's video. You'll still hear the main conversation, but at a lower volume. Moving between Crosstalk sub-conversations is easy - just click on who you want to talk with. Each Crosstalk will be assigned a random colorful emoji to help tell them apart.
Bug Fixes
fix for old meetings showing up
fixed upcoming meetings bugs
fix multiple client presence issues
chat paste crash
fix screenshare + camera off issue if you toggle camera
Sometimes it's nice to have your teammates in a neat row at the top of your screen, right under the camera (so it looks like you're making eye contact). Now you can do that by expanding the call box, then resizing to any size you want. Pro tip, you can click the 📌 in the top-right or use the shortcut [P] to make the window always-on-top.
Show Room Presence in Slack
Now, when you enter a Room in Tandem, your room state will be broadcast via Slack status (if connected). You can disable this behavior from the Slack preferences.
Improved performance on macOS Big Sur - we've fixed an issue that prevented hardware acceleration from being fully used for videos. You should notice a ~10% CPU usage improvement when sending camera and screenshare from Big Sur on Tandem 1.6.210.
We're gradually rolling out a new call experience. Some users will now start to see some new features, including HD mode, pagination for large calls, and ability to switch call region.
Support for Apple M1 - Tandem now works natively on your new Apple M1. Let us know if you experience any issues!
We've reorganized the in-call tooltip experience to appear on click instead of hover (no more accidental clicks!) and have additional options. You can click to join someone's website or request screenshare by clicking on the app icon (e.g. Github) to the right of their name.
In addition, in your own user tooltip, you'll see options for temporarily disabling your self-video, screenshare, self-crosstalk (which turns down audio of everyone else), and sharing your current link (even non-work links are supported)
