Do you have an iPad or iPhone in your hands? If this is so, then you could be communicating with friends and family in an easy and simple way using the function that Apple offers in its iOS operating system, that is, using FaceTime.
FaceTime is considered one of the most optimal and stable video conferencing systems over other different alternatives, having to meet only one requirement, and that is that those involved in the video conferencing must use a mobile device with iOS, which suggests to a iPad or an iPhone.
Conventional method to make a FaceTime
If you just bought a new generation iPad or iPhone, then you may not yet know How to activate FaceTime to start having a video conference with any friend of yours. The conventional system to carry out this task is one of the easiest to execute, since we will only need:
- Turn on and log in on our mobile device (iPhone or iPad).
- Search your desktop (or home screen) for the icon FaceTime to give it a touch.
- Now we select the name of one of our contacts in the right sidebar.
- Finally, we tap the icon in the shape of «video camera» located next to the word FaceTime.
With these simple steps that we have mentioned we will now have the possibility of start enjoying FaceTime from our mobile device with iOS; If for some strange reason you cannot see the name of any friend or family member in the right sidebar, you just have to touch the icon that appears at the bottom and says "contacts» so that all those that we have added to our account are shown.
The contact list is made up of the names that we have grouped in our telephone number or in the different social networks that we have installed on the mobile device. If you haven't yet added a contact you want to chat with at some point, just select the button with the «+» sign at the top right to add a new one.
Alternative to make a FaceTime with our contacts
What we suggest in the last paragraph may be reason for us to adopt another approach when it comes to make a video conference with this FaceTime function, Well, the fact that we cannot find some of the contacts with whom we are interested in talking will force us to try to search for them in a different area within the "Home Screen" of our mobile device.
A second alternative is found using the «Contacts» which is usually located next to the FaceTime one that we selected in the first method. When we click on the "contacts" icon, each and every one of them will appear in a list.
We only have to select one of the contacts shown in the list, and then click on the icon in the shape of «video camera» to start chatting via FaceTime with the selected friend.
For any of the 2 methods that we execute at the time of chat with a FaceTime within our iOS mobile devices, you must take into account the images that will appear filling the screen. That of your selected contact will be the one that appears on the entire screen, while your image will appear in a small window located in one of the corners.
Requirements to enjoy a FaceTime
We already mentioned the main requirement from the beginning, that is, a mobile device with iOS is primarily required, which directly involves an iPad or an iPhone.
The other requirement is to have friends or family added to our contact lists.
Regarding this last aspect, we will only need the telephone number of our contacts' mobile device to have them added to our lists; We could also use your email to be part of them.
As you can admire, the video conferencing using FaceTime They can be one of the most attractive systems that we adopt today if we mainly have an iPad or iPhone on hand.
