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Am I getting this right, is there really no way to use FaceTime as voice-only?
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Thanks, but
a) minimizing FaceTime is still speakerphone-mode which is quite useless for most situation.
b) every single contact has the FaceTime audio greyed out. Same case on my girlfriend's iPhone.
Just like with regular phone calls, if you minimize FaceTime, it means you're doing other things with your phone, so speakerphone is needed to still hear the call. If you don't want to use speakerphone, either don't minimize FaceTime or plug in headphones.
Are you certain that the recipients have FaceTime enabled or have it set to be used via both Wi-Fi and cellular data?
But that means without headphones I can pick between speakerphone and speakerphone-with-video. That's not how I normally have a phone conversation.
I can only tick FaceTime on/off in settings, and it is turned on at both my and recipient's side.
No, you can use the earpiece just like a regular call, without using speakerphone, if you don't minimize the app during the call.
Did you go through the troubleshooting checklist in the link I provided, for both your iPhone and the recipient's iPhone?
Whoops, there we go. Fine print:
FaceTime audio calling might not be available with devices purchased or used in China.
Both me and my girlfriend's phones are Chinese iPhone 6+.
Jailbreaking time?
Are you using the phones in China? I imagine this may be at the request of the telcos there so it may just be that it gets disabled if you're connected to a Chinese cellular network.
Yeah. I live in China at the moment. In half a year I can check if I can revert this naturally
