My family uses FaceTime all the time. We have many family members in the UK, Scandinavia, New Zealand and Australia. We also have nieces and nephews overseas in military. It's a great way to stay connected and is so much easier than Skype. I have relatives in their 80's and 90's that use FaceTime on their iPads!
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Apple to Release iOS 12.1 Tomorrow With Group FaceTime, New Emoji, Dual-SIM and Real-Time Depth Control
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Sounds like you will take an advantage of the Group FaceTime!
Does anyone know if using an eSim for a second phone number allows you to have a separate outgoing message on your voicemail for the 2nd number? I have used apps before for a secondary phone number so I didn’t have to put my primary in classified ads. However, if I couldn’t pick up the call when it came in, it got my regular number voicemail message. I’d like to have a secondary number and voicemail for my business.
No, he's just a romantic...nope, you are not. I think I used facetime once.
Everyone has skype or whatsapp but facetime is only on iOS so I don't use that. I'm surprised that people are actually excited for facetime.
And the guy that uses it for 4-6 hours a day with his wife, is he having long distance marriage?
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THAT is funny!
I know what you mean. I NEVER use the seventeenth letter of the english alphabet and I keep wondering why the Unicode Consortium forces it on us. Oh, and schwa e, I have NEVER used schwa e. Wish I could opt out of all diacriticals.
Although I could see companies that do secure government contract work disabling cameras on company owned phones and maybe disallowing personal devices on premises. But I’m not sure if this type of high security applies to most fortune companies.
As Emoji's are defined by the Unicode Consortium, everyone has to support them. (I know YOU knew that and were being funny, but this is for the folks that think you're serious and that Samsung doesn't support Unicode 11
with all the Emoji that entails!)https://blog.emojipedia.org/samsung-experience-9-5-emoji-changelog/
Might be by facility ...
I know several of my company’s facilities disable certain features when on site (phones with company access) or have non-company phones turned off. Others are business as usual. They do enforce the use of Business Skype fpr calls / video. As iOS and Android are both used, Facetime makes little sense.
My coimpany is Fortune 50. One other I interact with also uses site level security for mobile. As to others, no idea. Unless they are all Apple, I don’t see Facetime being an option. It’s easier to use then Skype.
I know. And the little icons underneath to scroll through aren't super intuitive for me. Sometimes, certain emoji's I'm looking for are not in the category/section that i would think them to be. It'd be nice to be able to add/remove emoji's based on preference or a 'pinned' section.
Our grandparents facetime us roughly once a day to see and speak their grandchildren.
Lol. Do you mean that buggy poc which makes calls but it never rings in the other side? I was so frustrated with Skype a few weeks ago that I deleted it. For good.Not on Android.
Skype
You’d be amazed how locked down most companies are. My company doesn’t allow for any cloud based software, so no google docs/msft one drive/nothing. Really hampers cross collaboration. Even the fingerprint scanner on the MacBook pros are disabled
Let's hope it actually auto detects activity with 5.1
I walked for 30 mins, nothing. Sat down for 10 mins, run detected?
Rather then add 70 new emoji's, I would prefer if they used that spent resource to fix something that actually needs fixing - like the LTE/Cellular issues maybe??
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Is this actually in the release notes etc, or been confirmed?
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Is this actually in the release notes etc, or been confirmed?
My battery went up with iOS 12, and heard others say the same with different phones
I use it daily, particularly FaceTime audio. It has replaced my normal voice calls
A new app? I showed my parents how to use Skype back in 2004 when I was spending a few months abroad. Later that year we set it up for my grandparents so they could keep in touch with my uncle who is living in another country. That was three years before Steve Jobs presented the first iPhone. There is nothing new about Skype at all.
But if it's new to your parents/grandparents because they didn’t know about Skype’s existence, then all those years they missed the opportunity to have video calls with their children/grandchildren before Apple implemented FaceTime in 2012 are on you. Which makes your whole argument about the significance of video conferencing for families seem kind of hypocritical.
I don’t argue with that, it is definitely more convenient to use (as long as everybody uses an Apple device). But this doesn’t mean that the alternatives, that were available long before group FT, were so inconvenient that it wasn’t possible to have video conferences with your family at all. That’s what I don’t get, that people here are acting like this would add completely new communication possibilities to their family live.
Yes, it is now easier to use. But it has been possible for many years.
Yes I agree. most companies have mobile device management on any phone with company data or email. And some of those policies may even disable FaceTime. Other companies might have a BYOD with MDM but keep facetime active.