FaceTime

FaceTime is a Apple Video Telephony application that allows users to engage in one-to-one video chatting on the Internet. Apple FaceTime runs on iOS devices which have front-facing cameras; Each chat participant has to install a FaceTime.

The FaceTime app comes preloaded on the iOS device and starts with the lion in all the Mac OS X versions. Mac users running older versions of OS X can download FaceTime from Mac App Store for $ 0.99.

Requirements

FaceTime requires an Apple ID and is only available on iOS devices. The following devices can access FaceTime on a Wi-Fi connection: iPhone 4 or later, iPad 2 or later, iPad mini, iPod Touch fourth generation or later. Beginning with iOS 6, Apple has allowed users to make FaceTime on 3G and 4G networks on iPhone 4G or later and on third generation or later iPads.

How to FaceTime

To turn on FaceTime, users open the app and sign in using the Apple ID; They can also sign in through device settings. Users can register by registering their email address as well. On iPhones, FaceTime automatically registers the phone numbers of users.

There are many options to make a face-to-face call. Users open the FaceTime app, enter another person's phone or email address, then tap the video or audio icon. On iPhone, users can start a FaceTime call during a phone call by tapping on the FaceTime icon. Users can also start a free time through the iOS Contacts app.

Users can also choose to block phone numbers in the FaceTime app settings. FaceTime does not support video conferencing or multicolor chatting - only one-on-one video call.

History Of Facetime

Then CEO Steve Jobs announced FaceTime in Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference in June 2010. Together with the release of iPhone 4 Apple purchased a trademark name "FaceTime" from Company FaceTime Communications, which later changed its name to Actiance.

FaceTime done its official release in the Mac App Store in February 2011. In March 2011, Apple added FaceTime with the newly launched iPad 2, which also has a rear and forward-facing camera.

With the 2013 release of iOS 7, Apple added only audio capabilities for the FaceTime. This feature, called FaceTime Audio, allows users to make voice calls to other users on cellular or wireless data networks.

In iOS 8, FaceTime received call-waiting feature on the iPhone, giving users an option to respond to incoming calls during another conversation.