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Questionable Rumor Suggests Group FaceTime is Coming in iOS 11

Analog Kid said:
Huh, didn't realize this wasn't possible already. Didn't iChat allow group video conversations?
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Yes, we found it great for letting both sets of grandparents be part of Christmas morning years ago, then Apple dropped it from later versions.
 
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nviz22 said:
I still use Hangouts if I use my Nexus 5X.
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Point is: some people on android MAY be using Hangouts, or they MAY be using Duo... or of course, both/neither.
With Apple- you know for certain that everyone that owns an iPhone, has iMessage.
I was just poking fun at the fact that the fragmentation in Android is so bad that apparently, to get the features of a rumored iMessage update, you'd have to use an older Google app that never really took off (& make sure the other parties all are using it as well), eschewing their "latest & greatest".
 
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Porco said:
With this and the iPhone facial recognition rumours lately, I wonder if there is a 'Time to face the future' iOS event incoming... ;)

But while I can see both things being very useful, I'd just like to say to technology in general: please get out of my face! I'm sure Apple will make it optional, but it's stuff like the Minority Report-style advertising kiosks treating our faces like browser cookies I am not looking forward to.



Yes you are, they changed that a few years ago (around iOS 6 I think).
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I didn't know they had changed it until I got my iPhone 6 and one of friends Facetimed me while I was in the supermarket on 4G! I was, like, how is this possible???
 
revolutionary! Apple invented it! blah blah blah.

Should have been rolled out a year or two tops after FT was originally rolled out.
 
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This is great (if it actually happens)! All I'll have to do between now and then is find another friend to talk to...
 
Tycho24 said:
Hangouts?
I thought Android users were supposed to be on Duo now.
Which, incidentally, does NOT support group video chat.
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I'm only using it for that feature...especially I can call Android and iPhone friends together, or with Skype whatever possible... ;)
Don't know why Duo does not have this anyway!
 
LOL I thought FaceTime could already do this?? Maybe just on OSX? I don't use FaceTime at all - probably because you never know if someone is on cell data and will eat up their data with a video call.
 
Whaaaat, Apple is adding back a capability that was pulled years ago?!? Clearly a false rumor.
 
Appleaker said:
Hopefully this is true. It would also make sense if Apple is to focus on iPad features this year (Although it wouldn't be exclusive to iPad)
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Thats what I thought, they show a picture of two people chatting in a group chat post.
Picture should have multiple people in different squares in the big screen and the user of the phone in the small picture in picture.
 
This will be a nice feature for everyone connected to the Apple ecosystem
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George Dawes said:
The airheads in that stock photo are the new target demograph for Apple

Emojis - woohoo ! Pink watch bands - Oh Yeah !!! What's a mac ?
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Lol just noticed that.
 
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