I've been using iPhone as webcam from early betas. Last week, it stopped working. I have the latest betas installed on iPhone and macOS. When I open FaceTime it doesn't trigger the iPhone camera anymore via WiFi (No camera available message), but it does work if I have the iPhone plugged in with a cable into the MacMini. Did I maybe turn something off in my iPhone settings and blocked computer access over WiFi? Continuity camera ("Import from iPhone") works fine over WiFi...
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iPhone as webcam not working over WiFi
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Same issue here. I noticed that, with my issue, it actually does work if I use my MacBook open. If I close it and connect it to my Studio Display, nope. Used to work fine with the Studio Display, before the latest set of betas.
After reading your post, I connected my phone to Mac with cable. Established Continuity Camera connection, then unplugged the cable. Connection remains (wirelessly).. So it's working. I even stopped and restarted the connection wirelessly and it works. Seems like a decent workaround until this is fixed.
@flyingfoxshots For me it's somewhat worse. Continuity camera works when I connect to my Mac with cable, but stops if I unplug the cable or if I close and reopen Facetime. I need a Mac reboot to make it work again. Funny thing, it all worked seamlessly, wired or wireless, a few betas back.
Good to know it's not just me. In my case the two devices (Mac mini M1 and iPhone 14 Po Max) clearly see each other once only, whether cabled or wireless, but the image on the Mac screen immediately freezes, then something behind the scenes obviously fails and the devices don't see each other again.
Not tried a restart, can't be arsed. To be expected with betas but I got thoroughly fed up checking through various sets of settings to see if the problem was on my end when it's clear now that it isn't.
I'll try again when Ventura is eventually released, and hope that it's in a better state by then.
Not tried a restart, can't be arsed. To be expected with betas but I got thoroughly fed up checking through various sets of settings to see if the problem was on my end when it's clear now that it isn't.
I'll try again when Ventura is eventually released, and hope that it's in a better state by then.