Houseparty Group Video Chat Tips – The Basics

The houseparty group video chat app is a unique app that allows its users to video chat with multiple friends at the same time. The app is well put together and operates smoothly. The interface simple and easy to operate.

How To Use Housparty Group Video Chat

When you first download the housparty group video chat app you will need to sign up for an account using your email. You will create a username and a password. Next you will input your phone number and the app will send your phone a text. When you receive the text you will need to input the verification code into the app to activate your account. Once your account has been activated the app will ask permission to use your phone’s camera and microphone. Once all the permissions have been granted you will be presented with this home page:

How To Use Housparty Group Video Chat

Until you start a group video chat, the front facing camera will continually provide random fun facts for you to read until you start a group video chat with your friends. These fun facts are surprisingly entertaining; sometimes I find myself just opening the app to see if any new fun facts have been added.

How to Add Friends on The Housparty Group Video Chat App

When you first Open up the housparty group video chat app, there is not much you can do with the app until you add your friends. You will need to add a few different friends before you can have your first party. To add friends on in the housparty group video chat app you will need to tap the icon in the upper right hand corner of the screen, when you do this you will be presented with this screen:

How to add friends in housparty group video chat

To add friends and invite them to a group video chat, you simply tap either the add friends tab or tap the green add friends button. Either one will present you with a page where you can add friends by searching their username or searching your contacts for users. Once you add your friends you can start a group video chat. AKA a party.

How To Start a Video Chat With The Houseparty Group Video Chat App

Now that you have a number of different friends added on the housparty group video chat app, you can start a video chat with your friends. To start a group video chat with the housparty app you can either swipe down on the screen or tap the white circle icon at the top center of the screen. When you do this you will be presented with this screen:

How To Start a Video Chat With The Houseparty Group Video Chat App

Of course when you have added friends on the app you will have a list of friends to chat with here. If they are on the app you will be able to join them in a group video chat. If they are not on the app you will be able to say hello by tapping the hello icon next to their name. If the person is in the middle of a group video chat there will be a list of names of all the people involved in the group video chat below that persons name. You can join your friends group video chat at any time.

In a follow up article I will be discussing some other tips you can use to enhance your housparty group video chat experience.

To find out how to flip the camera in Houseparty Group Video Chat CLICK HERE

Give the Housparty Group Video Chat app a try and let me know what you think by commenting below.

33 comments

  1. Fatima McClellan

    How to make a houseparty chat private.

    1. Martinique

      How do you keep unwanted persons to join your chat

      1. Jacob Herbert

        You can lock the chat by holding down on one of the people in the chat.

      2. Maraam

        Lock the room from the three dots located at the bottom left of your screen

      3. Jated

        You hold down the screen and at the bottom you’ll see like a loading thing. When it gets to the end it blocks the chat so no one can join. Click it to unblock

    2. Kylee

      Go to the three dots on the bottom left side and press lock room

  2. Tyrah French

    I cant see her, and both of our phones house party app is connected to our camera and mic

  3. Daejia Montgomery

    Why is house party unfriending my friends when I accept new people and not letting me add them

  4. Emilia

    How do i delete my house party account?

  5. Emily Brouillard

    I’m trying to verify my phone number on the app but it is saying that my number is not valid ( which I know it is valid). How can I fix this? I can’t add people without my contacts from my phone.

  6. Kate

    What is the max amount of people that can be in a chat at once?

    1. Anonymous

      8

  7. mia

    does this app send text messages to your phone? for instance.. house party codes?
    and is to random numbers or is it after sign up?

  8. Miriah

    Can you delete your house party account ?

    1. Yoss

      Thats my question so smh

  9. Emma Malloy

    The sound on my house party account does not work I can hear people but they can not hear me how do I fix that?

    1. Joel

      The same thing is happening to me

    2. Airel

      Did you fix this? Because it’s happening to me

  10. Lori Haas

    Why is my video dark when facing me but bright if I flip view?

  11. Michael Yell

    Add a feature to kick people if AFK

  12. Warren Woodard

    My mic is enabled but it doesn’t work in the app. How do I fix this?

  13. B

    My face camera screen is black and it works on snap chat and everything else…how do I fix this and is anyone else having the same problem?

  14. Brandon kreski

    My face camera screen is black and it works on snap chat and everything else…how do I fix this and is anyone else having the same problem?

  15. Alec

    I can’t hear any of my friends this is stupid

  16. Sabrina

    How do i delete a contact that was added on my account

  17. Nelva

    How do you unblock someone from the Houseparty app? I’m

  18. Ambur M Bond

    Why Everytime One Of My Froends Gets On Houseparty I Can NEVER Hear Him HIS VOLUME IS UP AND IT IS NOT MUTED????

  19. joanne

    how do you unblock someone you have blocked

  20. Bob Denby

    How do you delete your account

  21. Anonymous

    How do you best friend someone

  22. Ally

    How do u leav a group chat on house party ?

  23. Destiny Moore

    MY chat ends randomly. My friend and I fall asleep on Houseparty sometimes and we wake up to the chat ended and neither of us ended it?????? Help plz

  24. Destiny Moore

    MY chat ends randomly. My friend and I fall asleep on Houseparty sometimes and we wake up to the chat ended and neither of us ended it?????? Help plz!!

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