Yes. I'm pretty careful about Apple ID, but I double checked all our settings. FaceTime works fine, it's just an issue getting the invites to go through...
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Walkie talkie
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Sorry to hear. It’s a really fun way to talk. Have you deleted the invites and restarted and tried to re send the invites.
Yes. I'm waiting for my Series 4 to arrive this week and hoping that pairing it as a new watch will help.
I got a series 4 and same problems. Updated my phone and wife’s to ios12, then her watch, then sent her invite. Never showed up. Then tried having her invite me. I get no invite. We can both FaceTime just fine. Updated to 5.0.1 still broken
Mines broken here as well. Tried to unpair and restart, etc. now contacts don’t even show up under walkie talkie. It’s just been released and doesn’t even work.
I just hope I have the option to turn off Walkie Talkie. Not a chance I would use that feature.
As it is, I barely talk on the phone
As it is, I barely talk on the phone
You do. Just stay unavailable.I just hope I have the option to turn off Walkie Talkie. Not a chance I would use that feature.
As it is, I barely talk on the phone
I had the same issue. I finally deleted all invitations and shutdown both phones and watches. Restarted the phones and then the watches. I then made sure both were signed in to FaceTime with the same email address that is tied to the Apple ID being used. Then resent invitations and all started working great. I would make sure that FaceTime is using the same email address that is associated with the Apple ID.
Considering unlimited calls, text and such are options now, rather odd that Apple even offered Walkie Talkie.
Merely my opinion...
Merely my opinion...
After using Wilkie-Talkie quite a bit over this past week, I have the opposite opinion from these thoughts.
I think this could potentially be a very powerful way to communicate. I’ve used it with my wife, brother and a close friend quite a lot.
-it’s easier than a phone call and doesn’t fully occupy you
-it’s much faster than a handful of texts back and forth, especially if you aren’t hands free at the moment
-I communicate more quickly without my phone close by or in hand
I’m also quite impressed at the latency and quality of it (we know it is just using FaceTime audio)
Also my favourite part - I had AirPods in while listening to a podcast on my iPhone, and when someone was speaking to me on Walkie-Talkie the podcast paused and the WT audio was instantly routed to the AirPods instead of the Watch speaker. I thought that was a very nice touch.
If you have your iPhone in your pocket, it works.
My wife and I used it while shopping yesterday. It was a quick way to check in with each other when we were at different stores in the mall. Sure we could text, but sometimes she misses a text alert when her phone is in her purse, and it was easier than having to pull my phone out of my pocket just to ask her where she was. It’s also a lot easier than using scribble for texts on the watch.
It has limited use, but I’m sure some people will use it more than others.
We only set it to “available” when we went shopping, and will probably stick to only being “available” in certain situations.
I am also finding the feature to be very temperamental. It works less than 30% of the time. Many of the attempts would fall with failure to connect to the other party when the other person could be just meters aways.
Thanks for your post, but if you are on wireless or have celluar active, you don't need your phone anyhow and can just use your AW as to make a phone call just as quickly, so not sure why that is easier. Just trying to make sense of it better.
We can have quick bursts of a conversation, and start them instantly without needing to dial or waiting for the ring to be answered. Stretch out the conversation over time and not need to keep an active phone call for long.
Think of it as a mix of a voice call + text messages.
It works 10% of the time now. It is an improvement.
Yeah but if you miss that message, isn't it gone forever or can you replay it?
I tried Walkie Talkie with my mate, Josh, earlier. Surprisingly, it worked well.
So, there, I used it once, and that will probably be it...
So, there, I used it once, and that will probably be it...
I’ve had mostly good success with this app but a few glitches have occurred. Clearly it needs to be patched, and the invite interface revamped and duplicated in the Watch app. Once that happens, this is going to be a terrific feature. As it is now, it’s as good as the old Nextel phones most of the time for me.