FaceTime SharePlay Feature Won't Be Available When iOS 15 Launches

[JunBringer]

"listen to music and contribute to a group playlist"

This is the only part I want and you can do it with Spotify already. Plz release this part soon, thanks!

 

[ThatGuyInLa]

Is this becoming a habit? They talk up features then cut them? Still waiting for my 120hz support as shown for current ATV.

 

[svish]

Hoping it will be available this year

 

[macintoshmac]

At least features that can be fixed. Not like "you're holding it wrong", to use a popular meme as an example of something that couldn't be fixed.

That was iconic. Don’t know how many geniuses it took to come up with that.

 

[Howard Ellacott]

Apple really needs to drop the annual cadence. Every two years would be fine - more stability for organizations, meatier OS updates, and more time for testing.

I’d rather they released things whenever they were ready. Rather than bunching a load of features into a release. Like with iOS 9 where they added all the night shift features part way through.

 

[bluecoast]

I bet the company that makes Pegasus will be disappointed that it's not coming out yet.

 

[Davidov82]

Who cares about shareplay , I’m not FaceTiming with someone to share a video, what a stupid thing, anyway IOS 15 stupid update

 

[LV426]

Good.

 

[lartola]

Lame. Sharing screens is the one big thing I want some FaceTime. I am tired of walking my parents and in-laws through tasks on their phone and not seeing what they're seeing.

This is exactly why Apple needs to stop being so stubborn and extend the update cycle to two years. Obviously iOS 15 isn’t ready for a release this fall with all the features advertised at WWDC. They should have waited another year to announce it so they can release it from day one with everything that was advertised. Or at least 6 more months.

 

[I7guy]

It's ok Apple, no one is surprised at this point.

Or with the punctuation thusly:

"It's ok Apple, no?" "One is surprised at this point."

 

[I7guy]

This is exactly why Apple needs to stop being so stubborn and extend the update cycle to two years. Obviously iOS 15 isn’t ready for a release this fall with all the features advertised at WWDC. They should have waited another year to announce it so they can release it from day one with everything that was advertised. Or at least 6 more months.

Or they can release ios 15 in september with the iphone 13 without certain features....which they can release later...

 

[murdoc2k]

At least features that can be fixed. Not like "you're holding it wrong", to use a popular meme as an example of something that couldn't be fixed.

well, it was fixed in the end with free bumper cases 😉

 

[Premium1]

Man so much for that "we were so productive while working from home argument" lol....

 

[ExcelTronic]

I figured they would remove it. When me and my wife would use it, the noise cancelation wouldn't work, so I heard my voice on her end and vice versa. It would eventually turn into a loud ringing sound (like having two phones side by side). The solution was having both of us use headphones.

 

[DMG35]

iOS 15 seems like a little bit of a cluster. I’m seriously for the first time debating putting it on my devices when it launches and will probably wait until 15.1.

 

[The Game 161]

This is exactly why Apple needs to stop being so stubborn and extend the update cycle to two years. Obviously iOS 15 isn’t ready for a release this fall with all the features advertised at WWDC. They should have waited another year to announce it so they can release it from day one with everything that was advertised. Or at least 6 more months.

It’s one feature that will be after…hardly end of the world

 

[Apple_Robert]

I think it is bad PR for Apple to announce new features that don't come until x time. It causes a lot of MR angst whereby so many can't imagine living another day without this new feature that they have thus far lived without.

 

[bradman83]

Sony calls their PlayStation thing Share Play also. Maybe it’s a legal thing. Who knows anymore.

If that were the case Apple would have rebranded it to something like AirShare or whatever. (And even more likely Apple would have looked for trademark infringement issues long before picking the name). This screams bugs.

 

[lartola]

Or they can release ios 15 in september with the iphone 13 without certain features....which they can release later...

No they should be releasing new software (and hardware every 1.5-2 years). It’s been enough of releasing software without features to release those later. If they have to do that, then one year is far from enough time to develop a new OS version and the yearly cycle needs to be extended.

 

[lartola]

It’s one feature that will be after…hardly end of the world

It wouldn’t happen if the upgrade cycle were 1.5 or 2 years instead of just one year.

 

[I7guy]

No they should be releasing new software (and hardware every 1.5-2 years). It’s been enough of releasing software without features to release those later. If they have to do that, then one year is far from enough time to develop a new OS version and the yearly cycle needs to be extended.

I can understand the yearly release schedule. As long as the competition releases yearly, or more, so will Apple. Most probably wil stay like that for the foreseeable future.

 

[EM2013]

Apple will instead make SharePlay available in an update to iOS 15, iPadOS 15, tvOS 15, and macOS Monterey that's coming later this year.

15.5 in April like app tracking in 14.5?

 

[Dionte]

They took out all the major iOS 15 features, now its pretty much iOS 14 with spyware.

 

[bebarhood]

I have to be honest, I am not gonna FaceTime someone to watch a movie/tv show with. Lame feature tbh.

 

[lartola]

15.5 in April like app tracking in 14.5?

Could even be as late as just 2-3 days before the next WWDC like imessages in the cloud in 11.4.