How to Use FaceTime for Group Calls on iPhone

If you have an iPhone or MacBook, then you have apparently used FaceTime, Apple’s built-in video and voice-calling app. While FaceTime has always been helpful & useful for keeping in touch, it’s become even more valuable for staying connected with buddies and family while keeping social distancing standards. In this article, we’ll show how you can use FaceTime to make group calls on iPhone.

However, you can have up to 32 people on a FaceTime call, so it is a good video-chatting option if you do not want to download a different app to have a group video call — as long as you and your friends all have Apple devices. You can not install it on a Windows or Android device, and it is not available for all nations and carriers. Well, you can use it between different devices if one buddy is on MacBook and the rest of your buddies are using their iPhones.

Some other notes: To use FaceTime, you need to be working on iOS 12.1.4 or later on an iPhone 6S or more up-to-date model or an iPod touch (7th generation). If you are using an iPad, it should be iPad Pro, iPad Air 2, iPad (5th generation), iPad mini 4, and up-to-date model of any of those devices, operating iPadOS.

All that being said, if you have not tried FaceTime, but want to use it, here are a few steps to get begun and join group FaceTime calls via iPhone or a Mac.

FaceTime On Your iPhone:

Well, you can either use a FaceTime app to start a group call or, already talking to a group using Messages, you can start a group FaceTime session from there.

Using The FaceTime App:

Following are the steps:

1. Open an app
2. Click the + icon (without a circle around it) in a top-right corner
3. Type in the names or numbers of the people you would like to talk to. If they are in a contact list, their names will come up while typing, and you can click each name to join them via call
4. You can also click on a circle (with a + sign inside) to open up a contacts list and select people. Tap their name to open up a contact then, tap their number to join them.
5. Tap a green video button to start (video call) or an audio button to start (audio call).

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Using The Messages App:

Following are the steps: 

1. Open an app
2. Open up current group chat or conversation in a Messages app
3. Tap the icons for your contacts at a top of a screen (bubbles with either your contacts’ profile photos, initials, or an icon with a figure’s head and shoulders)
4. Click on a FaceTime icon to begin a call

Well, to add someone to a FaceTime call:

1. Tap a screen
2. Swipe up to pull up a menu
3. Tap “Add Person”
4. Then tap + to add anyone from your contacts, or type in his/her name or number into a bar at a top and select a contact from a results
5. Tap “Add Person to FaceTime”

However, there are many ways to join a group FaceTime call:

1. Tap a notification (if accepted one), then tap a video button at a bottom of a screen.
2. Open group chat or conversation in a Messages app and the FaceTime call will come up in a bubble, related to a message. Click a “Join” button in that bubble.
3. Open the FaceTime app and it will show you a list of all of your current and active calls. Any calls joined will be highlighted in green with a green video button next to it. To join a call, click that button, and then, click the video button at a bottom of a screen labeled “Join”.
4. To leave a group FaceTime call, tap a screen and then, click a red “X” button in a bottom-right corner of a screen.

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