Starting a 1:1 or Group Call

Starting a call from a direct message

1. Open the DM. In the chat header, next to the more-options menu, you’ll see a phone icon and a video icon.
2. Tap the phone icon to start a voice call, or the video icon to start a video call straight away. Video calls are a Nuts Premium feature — if you’re not subscribed, tapping it shows a prompt instead of starting the call.
3. The Live Nut room opens and shows “Connecting…” while it sets up, then “Ringing…” while it waits for the other person.

Starting a call from a group chat

1. Open the group chat. In the header, tap the call icon (a speech bubble with sound-wave bars) next to the more-options menu.
2. This starts a voice call for the whole group — everyone in the chat can join. You turn your camera on from inside the room if you want video.
3. If a call is already running in that group, the same icon shows a small red dot — tap it to join instead of starting a new one.

What the other side sees

Anyone else in the chat gets an invite card that slides up from the bottom of their screen, no matter what they’re doing in the app at the time:

• In a direct message, it reads “Your name wants you in their Live Nut.”
• In a group chat, it reads “Your name is going live in the group name.”

Each card has a Join button that drops them straight into the room, and a small X to dismiss it without joining.

Ending a call

Tap the red leave button (bottom right of the control bar) to get off a call. What happens next depends on where the call is:

• In a direct message, tapping leave opens a small menu with two options: Leave quietly (you drop off, the call keeps going if the other person is still in it) and End for everyone (disconnects both of you). Either person in the call can end it for both sides.
• In a group call on the app, there’s no “end for everyone” option — tapping leave just takes you out. The call itself ends automatically once everyone has left.

On the web

The web app has a single call button in the chat header (labeled “Go Live” on hover) that starts a voice call — there’s no separate video button; you enable your camera once you’re in the room. Once in a call, you can also share your screen from the top bar, which isn’t available on the app yet.

For ending a call, web group chats work slightly differently from the app: the group’s owner or an admin also gets the End for everyone option, in addition to everyone being able to leave individually. If a call is running and you haven’t joined yet, a banner appears above the chat (“Active voice call — Tap to join”) with a button to end it for everyone who hasn’t joined.