You can also share your screen and show apps, webpages, and more during the conversation—show off a photo album, plan your next group vacation, or get feedback on something you’re working on—all while seeing and hearing the reactions of others on the call.
How to use Portrait mode in FaceTime on iPhone and iPad
Many of us have been using video calls to keep in touch with a lot of friends and family in the past few years. Thankfully, iOS 15 also brought the ability to use Portrait mode in a FaceTime call, so you can blur your background while chatting. This also works in other video calling apps, like Skype or Google Meet, so it’s not just limited to FaceTime. Before you try to use Portrait mode to blur the background in your FaceTime calls, you need to know that the feature is only available on certain device models.
Right now, the Portrait Mode in FaceTime feature is only available on iPhones and iPads with at least an A12 Bionic chip or better. It’s safe to assume that once the iPhone 14 comes out, we can be sure that it will also be capable of using Portrait mode in FaceTime and other video calls.
Activate Portrait mode in a FaceTime call: Tap on your video view in the bottom right corner, then tap the Portrait mode icon in the upper left (Image credit: iMore) On a device with Face ID or no Home button , swipe down from the upper right corner of the screen. On a device with Touch ID with a Home button, swipe up from the bottom center of the screen. Use Control Center to toggle Portrait mode in FaceTime: Bring up Control Center, tap Video Effect in upper left corner, tap toggle for Portrait mode (Image credit: iMore) You may need to use the Control Center method to toggle Portrait Mode if the app does not have a button to activate it during a call. We’ve all been there — we just don’t want to show our messy rooms as our background in a video call with other people.
That’s why we’re happy that Apple added Portrait mode into FaceTime and video calls, because who doesn’t like blurring out the background?
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How to Use FaceTime on Your iPad
This preinstalled app is useful for people who want to keep up with distant family members and friends and to see (as well as hear) the latest-and-greatest news.
You can make and receive calls with FaceTime by using a phone number (iPhone 4 or later) or an e-mail account (iPad 2 or later, iPod touch, or Mac) and show the person on the other end what’s going on around you.
Just remember that you can’t adjust audio volume from within the app or record a video call.
The first time you use the app, you may be asked to select the phone number and e-mail accounts you want to use for FaceTime calls and then to click Next.
In the contact’s information, tap a stored phone number that’s FaceTime-capable or an e-mail address that the contact has associated with FaceTime, and then tap the FaceTime button (shaped like a video camera). iPad 2 or later and iPod touch (fourth-generation and later) users can make this setting by tapping Settings→FaceTime and signing in with an Apple ID.
You can also simply go to the Contacts app, find a contact, tap the FaceTime icon in that person’s record, and then tap the phone number or e-mail address in the pop-up that appears to make a FaceTime call. However, remember that if you use FaceTime over a phone connection, you may incur costly data usage fees.
New with iOS 7 you can make audio only FaceTime calls which cuts down on the data streaming that can cost you when you share video.
Once you accept the call, you can chat away with your friend, tapping the FaceTime button if you want to view video images.
When you’re on a FaceTime call, you may want to use the iPad’s built-in camera to show the person you’re talking to what’s going on around you. This preinstalled app is useful for people who want to keep up with distant family members and friends and to see (as well as hear) the latest-and-greatest news.
You can make and receive calls with FaceTime by using a phone number (iPhone 4 or later) or an e-mail account (iPad 2 or later, iPod touch, or Mac) and show the person on the other end what’s going on around you. Just remember that you can’t adjust audio volume from within the app or record a video call.
The first time you use the app, you may be asked to select the phone number and e-mail accounts you want to use for FaceTime calls and then to click Next.
In the contact’s information, tap a stored phone number that’s FaceTime-capable or an e-mail address that the contact has associated with FaceTime, and then tap the FaceTime button (shaped like a video camera).
iPad 2 or later and iPod touch (fourth-generation and later) users can make this setting by tapping Settings→FaceTime and signing in with an Apple ID.
You can also simply go to the Contacts app, find a contact, tap the FaceTime icon in that person’s record, and then tap the phone number or e-mail address in the pop-up that appears to make a FaceTime call.
However, remember that if you use FaceTime over a phone connection, you may incur costly data usage fees.
New with iOS 7 you can make audio only FaceTime calls which cuts down on the data streaming that can cost you when you share video. Once you accept the call, you can chat away with your friend, tapping the FaceTime button if you want to view video images.
When you’re on a FaceTime call, you may want to use the iPad’s built-in camera to show the person you’re talking to what’s going on around you.
Tap the Switch Camera button again to switch back to the front camera, which displays your image.
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It lets you place free audio and video calls from your iPad to any other Apple gadget: phone, tablet, iPod Touch, or Mac. The Setup Before you begin, open Settings→FaceTime, make sure FaceTime is turned on, and sign in with your Apple ID.
Note, furthermore, that—in case you missed it—you can place FaceTime calls only to other iPhones, iPads, iPod Touches, and Macs. If your future conversation partner isn’t in Contacts yet, then tap where it says Enter name, email, or number , and do just that.
In the Contacts app, if you tap a person’s name, you’ll find buttons that place FaceTime audio calls. If you’re chatting away with somebody by text and you realize that typing is no longer appropriate for the conversation, tap Details at the top of the screen.
How you answer depends on what’s happening at the time: If you’re using the iPad , tap the green Accept button. If you slide your finger as indicated by the arrow, you simultaneously unlock the tablet and answer the call. You can even use the tablet’s Internet functions (Web, email, apps, and so on) without interrupting your call. The caller still hears the tablet ringing, and you can still answer, but at least the sound won’t be annoying those around you. Whenever your tablet rings, though, the screen bears a small white Message button (shown here at right). If you’re driving or in a meeting, this feature is a lot more polite and responsive than just ignoring the poor slob.
The fourth button, Custom, lets you type or dictate a new message on the spot. (“I’m in a meeting and, frankly, your call isn’t worth getting fired for” comes to mind.) These options use the tablet’s GPS circuitry to detect when you’ve left your current inconvenient-to-take-the-call location, whether it’s a job interview, a first date, or an outhouse. Now you have a chance to yell upstairs, to clear the phlegm from your throat, or to do anything else you’d rather the other party not hear.
Speaker Tap this button to turn on the iPad’s built-in speakerphone—a great hands-free option when you’re caught without your earbuds or Bluetooth headset. (In fact, the speakerphone doesn’t work if the earbuds are plugged in or if a Bluetooth headset is connected.)
Now you can put the iPad down on a table or a counter and have a conversation with both hands free. The iPad puts the first person on hold—neither of you can hear the other—and opens your Contacts list. The top of the screen makes clear that the first person is still on hold as you talk to the second.
Think how many TV and movie comedies have relied on the old “Whoops, I hit the wrong button and now I’m bad-mouthing somebody directly instead of behind his back!” gag. You can enjoy these Jetsons fantasies when calling between iPhones, iPads, iPod Touches, and Macs. Never again will you return home from the store and get scolded for buying the wrong size, style, or color.
In any case, FaceTime couldn’t be easier to fire up—in all the usual ways: From Siri . If you’re chatting away with somebody by text and you realize that typing is no longer appropriate for the conversation, then tap Details at the top of the screen.
At this point, the other guy receives an audio and video message inviting him to a chat. FaceTime works in either portrait (upright) or landscape (widescreen) view; just turn your tablet 90 degrees.
Of course, if your calling partner doesn’t also turn her gadget, she’ll see your picture all squished and tiny, with big black areas filling the rest of the screen. Tip The (Lock Rotation) button described on Control Center works in FaceTime, too.
That is, you can stop the picture from rotating when you turn the tablet—as long as you’re happy with full-time upright (portrait) orientation. When you leave the FaceTime app for any reason (press the Home button and then open a different program, if you like), the other guy’s screen goes black. But it’s also a great trick when you need to adjust your clothing, pick at your teeth, or otherwise shield your activity from the person on the other end. In the meantime, the call is, technically, still in progress—and a green banner at the top of the Home screen reminds you of that. That is, you’ll want to turn on the camera on the back of the iPad, the one pointing away from you, to show off the baby, the artwork, or the broken engine part. FaceTime calls, texts, emails, and other communications continue to chug happily away; they just don’t draw attention to themselves.
You don’t really want to be bothered with chirps for Facebook status updates and Twitter posts, but it’s fine for the tablet to collect them for the morning. Bedtime is why Do Not Disturb comes with two fantastic additional settings: one that turns it on and off automatically on a schedule, so that the tablet goes dark each night at the same time you do, and another that lets you designate important people whose calls and texts are allowed to get through.
Swipe upward to open the Control Center, and tap the icon so that it turns white.
Allowing Special Callers Through What if your child, your boss, or your elderly parent needs you urgently in the middle of the night?
Turning the tablet off completely, or putting it into Airplane mode, would leave you unreachable in an emergency. You can also create an arbitrary group of people—just your mom and sister, just your boss and nephew, whatever. It’s a great way to ensure that you don’t miss important FaceTime calls if you happened to have awakened early today and started working. You can also place a call the same way: Just click any phone number you find on the iPad: in Contacts, in Safari, in an email message, and so on.
Tip If you own a bunch of Apple machines, it might drive you crazy that they all now ring at once when a call comes in. To make one of your iPhones, iPads, or iPod Touches stop ringing, turn off Settings→FaceTime→iPhone Cellular Calls.
To make a Mac stop ringing, open the FaceTime program; choose FaceTime→Preferences→Settings, and turn off iPhone Cellular Calls. Third, you can tap inside the search box at the top left of the screen.
If you’ve allowed your iPad to display your contacts from Facebook or Twitter, each of those lists is a group, too. Adding to the Contacts List You don’t have to type in all your phone numbers and email addresses one at a time.
Instead, the iPad sucks in the entire phone book from your Mac or PC, iCloud, and/or an Exchange server at work. But if, in a pinch, on the road, at gunpoint, you have to add, edit, or remove a contact manually, here’s how to do it.
It shouldn’t take you very long to figure out how to fill in this form: You tap in a box and type. But there are a few tips and tricks for the data-entry process: The keyboard opens automatically when you tap in a box.
(You can even enter text phone numbers, like 1-800-GO-BROWNS; the iPad converts them to digits when it dials.) That is, the instant you start filling in a field, another empty box (labeled add phone or whatever) appears right below it, so you can immediately add another phone number, email address, URL, street address, or whatever.
There’s always one empty field, so you can never run out of places to add more phone numbers, addresses, and so on. (Don’t worry—the perpetual empty box doesn’t appear once you’re finished editing the person’s card.) Here you can frame up the photo so the person’s face is nicely sized and centered. It also appears next to the person’s name in your Favorites list (if you haven’t turned that feature off in Settings, of course).
There’s also the social profile field, where you can list somebody’s Twitter, LinkedIn, Flickr, Facebook, and even Myspace addresses. There’s an instant message field, too, where you can record addresses for chat networks like AIM or Yahoo Messenger.
Here’s where you can specify this person’s mother, father, spouse, partner, child, manager, sibling, and so on—or even type in a relationship that you make up (tap Add Custom Label ). Fortunately, with one click, the iPad can harvest headshots from the world’s largest database of faces: Facebook. Tip Actually, there’s another side effect of this operation: It also adds all your Facebook friends’ names to your main Contacts list. It just subscribes to your Facebook address book—adds a new group, which you can turn off with one quick click; see Adding to the Contacts List. Even if you do choose to hide all their entries, you still get the benefit of the imported headshots and Facebook email addresses for the people you do want to see in Contacts. Its purpose is to fill in the Twitter handles for everyone who’s already in your Contacts, matching them by phone number or email address.
Of course, if you really want one ringtone for your buddy’s cellphone and another for his home phone, you can always create a different Contacts card for each one. When you’ve settled on a good one, tap Done to return to the Info screen where you started. Very cool: If you tap add field at the bottom of the screen, then you go down the rabbit hole into Field Land, where you can add any of 15 additional info bits about the person whose card you’re editing: a prefix (like Mr. or Mrs.), a suffix (like M.D. ), a nickname, a job title, a birthday, an instant message address, a phonetic pronunciation for people with weird names, and so on.
When you tap one of these labels, you return to the Info screen, where you’ll see that the iPad has inserted the new, empty field in the most intelligent spot. Your Contacts app might list four sets of names and numbers: one stored on your tablet, one from an iCloud account, one from Facebook, and a fourth from your corporate Exchange server at work.
Remember, the whole point is to make the iPad combine all the phone numbers, email addresses, and so on onto a single card—and seeing two sets on one card could get confusing fast. Editing Someone To make corrections or changes, tap the person’s name in the Contacts list.
It would be thoughtful, therefore, if you could spare the next guy all that effort—by sending a fully formed electronic business card to him. The recipient, assuming he has a half-decent smartphone or address-book program on the receiving end, can install that person’s information with a single tap on the attachment.
How to Use a Different Apple ID for FaceTime on iPhone & iPad
Do you want to use a different Apple ID / email address for making and receiving calls over FaceTime? Apple’s FaceTime video-calling service that’s integrated into iOS and macOS devices is extremely popular among Apple users, as it offers a convenient way to video conference and call other iPhone, iPad, and Mac owners for free. By default, FaceTime uses the Apple ID that’s linked to your iOS/iPadOS device in addition to your phone number. Nonetheless, there are some unique circumstances where using a different Apple ID for FaceTime may be desired or necessary.
Simply type in the login credentials for your other Apple ID and tap on “Sign In” to start using this account with FaceTime. You can set this up in a way that you stop using your phone number for FaceTime calls and keep your details private.
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