Apple’s FaceTime video chat service has been around since 2010, but the global coronavirus pandemic has meant that video calling has become much more …
Apple’s FaceTime video chat service has been around since 2010, but the global coronavirus pandemic has meant that video calling has become much more important for both business uses and staying in touch with friends and family. Not wanting Zoom to take all the success, Apple announced some key updates to FaceTime during its WWDC event. Some of the features do indeed go some way to make FaceTime more like Zoom, while other features — like SharePlay — are all new and could offer great new ways of virtually hanging out with friends. Here are all the new features. Instead of calling another FaceTime user through the app, just as you’d make a phone call, you can now generate an invite link to send to your friends, family or colleagues. This allows you to put links in calendars and schedule them for later, rather than having to set up the call when the meeting begins. It also allows for… FaceTime has previously only been available to iPhone or iMac users, but using the invite links you can now have people on Android or Windows join the call.
