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AT&T Seems to Be Extending FaceTime-Over-Cellular to All Customers
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Not working down here in the Ft. Lauderdale area. iPhone 4s. 3 gig Data plan, did a hard reset as well as turning phone off and on. Both times, I went into the Facetime settings I go to click "Use Cellular Data" to ON and I get the blue pop up to call AT&T yada, yada..
Facetime over cellular is NOT supported on the iPhone 4. Requires 4s or later. That's why you don't have any switch to try to toggle on.
No luck here. iPhone 5 with 6.1 beta 2; grandfathered unlimited data (family plan with two lines); Suffolk County, NY (east end of Long Island).
There's no LTE out here whatsoever. I wonder if there's a correlation between those successful enabling FT over cellular & presence of LTE??
There's no LTE out here whatsoever. I wonder if there's a correlation between those successful enabling FT over cellular & presence of LTE??
I am on a limited plan on AT&T with the iPhone 5. Still not able to select FaceTime without getting the popup telling me to call or go to the website.
Since they are loosening up on their restrictions maybe they should also allow tethering on all limited plans rather than just 5GB...
Since they are loosening up on their restrictions maybe they should also allow tethering on all limited plans rather than just 5GB...
I've just tried and it doesn't work yet. Still toggles to OFF a few seconds after it finds ATT towers. Have done the hard reset twice.
North Dallas...iPhone 4s, Grandfathered unlimited on a family plan.
I use Facetime a lot so this would be great for me.
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Yay! Worked for me here in Washington State on my grandfathered unlimited plan with my new iPad Mini.
First enabling FaceTime cellular failed, but after turning the iPad Mini off and on, FaceTime cellular was already enabled.
I had earlier submitted a complaint to the FTC about this FaceTime (and Mobile Hotspot) being discriminated against for unlimited plans, so I'm happy this point is resolved. Still waiting for the Hotspot on AT&T...
First enabling FaceTime cellular failed, but after turning the iPad Mini off and on, FaceTime cellular was already enabled.
I had earlier submitted a complaint to the FTC about this FaceTime (and Mobile Hotspot) being discriminated against for unlimited plans, so I'm happy this point is resolved. Still waiting for the Hotspot on AT&T...
In Portland, Oregon. Mine started working on Wed morning, Nov 21 2012. My wife's hasn't started working yet. I re-synced her phone, re-powered, but still no dice. It looks like AT&T is staggering the roll-out of this capability.
I live in NYC, but currently sit in Gilbert, Arizona just outside of Phoenix and I can confirm that my FaceTime switch is turned 'ON' and I have a grandfathered unlimited plan. This after a reboot, of course, although I didn't see if it was turned on before doing so.
Either way, FT over LTE!
Either way, FT over LTE!
Got mine and my wife's iPhone 5's to work here in Seattle but it took a hard reset to do it - the regular power off, power on didn't do it. The Vulcan death grip did.
Chicago suburbs (west). Appears to work after turning the phones off then on again. The switch was toggled to "on" after a restart for both mine (grandfathered unlimited) and my wife's (2GB) iPhone 5s. Prior to restarting trying to turn it on said we didn't have the appropriate data plan. I haven't used it yet though.
Told YA!
I talked to an AT&T rep on November 11th who gave me this info. Posted it in an older thread, but no one picked up on it. See original post here:
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1486109/
I talked to an AT&T rep on November 11th who gave me this info. Posted it in an older thread, but no one picked up on it. See original post here:
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1486109/
Not working in Orange County California
No luck.
Orange County, CA
iPhone 5 running 6.0
Unlimited Plan
The first restart I did showed it turned on under cellular, but not under facetime settings. I tried a call and it didn't work. Now that I've been restarting it more, it doesn't even show on in the cellular settings as it once did.
No luck.
Orange County, CA
iPhone 5 running 6.0
Unlimited Plan
The first restart I did showed it turned on under cellular, but not under facetime settings. I tried a call and it didn't work. Now that I've been restarting it more, it doesn't even show on in the cellular settings as it once did.