Utilise FaceTime with your iPhone, iPad, or iPod impact

Larn how to employ FaceTime to brand video and audio calls on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch.

An iPhone next to an iPad. Both devices show ongoing FaceTime video calls.

Yous tin use FaceTime over Wi-Fi1 or over cellular on supported iOS or iPadOS devices.2 FaceTime isn't available or might not appear on devices purchased in United Arab Emirates. Group FaceTime and FaceTime Sound are not available in Mainland china mainland on iPhone and iPad with cellular.

  • Plough on FaceTime

  • Make a FaceTime telephone call

  • Reply a FaceTime call with telephone call waiting

  • Create a link to a FaceTime telephone call

  • Share your screen

  • Use SharePlay to watch and listen together

  • Spatial Sound in FaceTime

  • Filter background sounds

  • Blur the background with Portrait style

Plough on FaceTime

Open up the FaceTime app and sign in with your Apple ID. You tin also exercise this from Settings > FaceTime.

An iPhone showing the FaceTime settings screen, with FaceTime turned on.

If you're using an iPhone, FaceTime automatically registers your phone number.

If y'all're using an iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch on, you can register your e-mail address:

  1. Open Settings.
  2. Tap FaceTime, then tap Use your Apple tree ID for FaceTime.
  3. Sign in with your Apple tree ID.

Make a FaceTime telephone call

To make a FaceTime call, you demand the person'south phone number or registered email address. There are a few means to brand a FaceTime call:

An iPhone showing the Phone app during a call with Jane Appleseed. The FaceTime button is in the second row of icons in the center of the screen.

Answer a FaceTime sound call with call waiting

When another call comes in—either a phone phone call or another FaceTime audio call—you can cull i of these options:

An iPhone showing an incoming call during an ongoing call. The End & Accept, Decline, and Hold & Accept buttons are at the bottom of the screen.

  • Cease & Accept: Finish the current call and have the incoming phone call.
  • Hold & Accept: Accept the incoming call and put the electric current call on concur.
  • Turn down: Refuse the incoming phone call.

With iOS 15 and iPadOS xv, you tin create a link to a FaceTime call and ship the link to others using Messages or Postal service. They tin utilise the link to join or initiate a call. Here's how:

  1. Open the FaceTime app and tap Create Link.
  2. Tap Add Name, type a name for the meeting, then tap OK. This lets others know which telephone call they're joining.
  3. Select the person you desire to send the link to, or send the link from Messages, Mail service, or whatever other supported apps in the Share menu.

You tin can invite anyone to join a FaceTime call, even people who don't have an Apple device. They tin can join you in one-on-one and Group FaceTime calls from their browser. You can't create a FaceTime link with Windows or a non-Apple tree device, but you can join a FaceTime call if someone shares a link with you.

Learn more about using FaceTime on the web.

Creating a link to a FaceTime telephone call isn't supported on iPhone models purchased in China mainland. FaceTime links aren't supported in China mainland.

Spatial Audio in FaceTime

Spatial Audio in FaceTime makes it audio like your friends and family are in the room with you. Their voices are spread out and audio like they're coming from the management in which each person is positioned on the screen, helping conversations flow more than naturally.

Spatial Audio is supported on these devices: iPhone XR, iPhone XS models and later, iPad (8th generation) and afterwards, all iPad Pro 11-inch models, iPad Pro 12.9-inch (3rd generation) and later, iPad Air (tertiary generation) and afterward, and iPad mini (5th generation) and later.

Filter background sounds

When y'all want your voice to be heard clearly in a FaceTime call and other sounds to be blocked out, you tin can turn on Voice Isolation. Voice Isolation prioritizes your voice in a FaceTime phone call and blocks out the ambient racket.

  1. During a FaceTime phone call, open up Control Center, then tap Mic Mode.
  2. Select Voice Isolation.

When you want your voice and all the sounds around you to be heard in a FaceTime call, you tin can turn on Wide Spectrum to leave ambient noises unfiltered.

  1. During a FaceTime telephone call, open Control Middle, then tap Mic Mode.
  2. Select Wide Spectrum.

Voice Isolation and Wide Spectrum are supported on these devices: iPhone XR, iPhone XS models and later, iPad (8th generation) and later, all iPad Pro 11-inch models, iPad Pro 12.nine-inch (third generation) and later, iPad Air (tertiary generation) and later, and iPad mini (5th generation) and subsequently.

Blur the background with Portrait way

With iOS xv and iPadOS 15, you can turn on Portrait mode to automatically blur the background and put the visual focus on you, the same style Portrait way does in the Camera app.

  1. When you're on a FaceTime phone call, tap your picture-in-pic tile.
  2. Tap the Portrait mode button in the top left of your personal video tile.

To turn Portrait mode off, tap the Portrait fashion button over again.

Portrait mode in FaceTime is supported on iPhone XS Max or afterwards, iPad Air (3rd generation), iPad mini (5th generation), and iPad Pro (third generation) and afterwards.

1. You can use FaceTime on whatever of these devices on Wi-Fi: iPhone four or afterward, iPad Pro (all models), iPad 2 or later, iPad mini (all models), and iPod touch 4th generation or later on (only iPod touch 5th generation or after back up FaceTime audio calling).

2. With a cellular data plan, you can also use FaceTime without Wi-Fi on any of these devices: iPhone 4s or subsequently, iPad Pro (all models), and iPad (3rd generation or afterwards).

3. When yous tap a person's contact data, FaceTime tries to connect using whatsoever FaceTime-enabled numbers or addresses that you have stored for that person. To avoid placing calls to unintended recipients, make sure that your contacts are accurate and don't comprise quondam or unused data.

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