Handoff Lets You Swap FaceTime Calls Between Devices in iOS 16, iPadOS 16 and macOS Ventura

[SenorWhyMe]

hopes it’s better improved than phone calls cause on ios15 mac os 12 always swapping phone to mac during calls never damn worked

 

[mxrider88]

Let’s just hope Apple does not take 11 months like universal control to Implement the feature working correctly without being beta for the next year.

Continuity has been in beta since it was first released. It NEVER worked with multiple user accounts logged in for example.

I had hundreds of emails back and forth with apple to get it fixed. It is kind of working now on 12.4. Except hotspot and Apple Watch unlock. And probably just until the next update..

 

[svish]

Great addition. Live caption is also very welcome.

 

[xpxp2002]

Does this work for normal phone calls and FaceTime Audio calls?

This is what I want to know. I never use FaceTime, but if I could hand off carrier-based phone calls between my iPhone, iPad, etc. that would be quite useful to me.

 

[Brachaci]

It appeared so. iDevice will be equivalent to a built-in camera, presumably microphone too and you'll see the other person(s) on your Mac screen. This seems like a fantastic feature because it can use a much superior camera than any built-in ones and basically bring easy FaceTime to many monitors without a camera at all.

The big surprise to me is that this wasn't also announced as a tvOS feature. I can't begin to count how many wishes I've read to get FaceTime working with the TV screen. Since the Belkin hook will have to be pretty flexible to work with any screen and TVs are just one big monitor screen, this seems like an obvious feature to work into tvOS too. If so, I'd buy one Belkin hook to just leave on the TV and another for the desktop monitor.

It's wireless, presumably working via airplay or something pretty similar. Why NOT make AppleTV work just like the Mac will work for this?

Absolutely agree. Looks to me it is just one step before adopting this feature for tvOS, which would be awesome. Fingers crossed.