David Cox: Hey folks.
Today I'm gonna teach you how to use, share, play on your iPhone, iPad, or Mac.
That's coming up next on Tech Talk America.
Hey folks, and welcome to the class while Share Play is technically available
on iPhone, iPad, the Mac and Apple tv.
In my opinion, the interface is far superior on iPhone or iPad.
In this video, of course, I'm gonna teach you how to use share play.
I'm gonna go over some best practices and I'm also gonna give you a few
recommendations for apps that work especially well with share Play.
Let's start with the basics.
Like what is share, play, share play is a feature that allows
people to collaborate through apps while on a video FaceTime call.
It's perfect for families who want to stay connected, teachers who want to
engage their students, realtors who are working with clients that are not local.
And if you ever need to have a video FaceTime call with someone who speaks a
foreign language that you don't speak, there's a few apps that even offer
live onscreen translated captions.
To set up, share, play, make sure your phone or iPad is
running iOS 15.1 or later.
And if you're on the Mac, it needs to be running Mac Os Monterey.
Or later you'll also want to go into settings, scroll down to FaceTime and
make sure that share play is enabled.
Then just start a FaceTime call.
Once the call is connected, you should see this menu appear on your screen.
If it disappears, just tap on the screen and it will reappear.
At this point, we're gonna tap on this icon, and in this list you'll see all
the different apps that are on your device that have support for share play.
There's also a link where you can see a list of all of the apps that
have support in the app store.
For this example, I'm gonna use the game heads up.
And just to be clear, in order for this to work, both parties have to have
the same app on each of their devices.
In our case, because we're on a family plan and have purchase sharing enabled.
When one of us buys an app, the other gets it for free.
If you ever need help with setting up something similar with your
family, you can book a one hour tech therapy session with me on
my website at TechTalkAmerica.com.
So now that I have the app launched, it's asking me if I want to start a party.
So let's tap on that.
When I do the other iPad gets a notification to join.
I'll pick a category.
Let's for now just go with movies and I'll tap play on one iPad, it
shows me the title, and on the other iPad it just shows question marks.
So at this point, the person who can see the movie's title would try to
give clues to the person guessing it.
It's a lot of fun.
And I'm guessing many of you have probably already played heads up when you're face
to face, but now you have an idea of how it looks when you're using share play.
So what are the best apps that offer, share play?
Here's a few of my favorites.
If you're a parent teacher or if you're somehow involved in training
other people in your profession.
You are gonna love cahoot.
A cahoot is basically a fun term for a quiz.
If you're a teacher, you can browse their website to find cahoots on all
sorts of topics, whether it's math, history, science, or something else.
You can also create your own Cahoot, and that's where it can be a really
wonderful tool for adults who are involved in online training.
If you're a realtor, you should know that both Zillow and Redfin
now have support for share play.
If you're a grandparent and you want to.
Fun way to bond with your grandkids.
Be sure to check out Trivia Crack two.
It should also be noted that several streaming services offer share, play,
including Disney plus TikTok, paramount Plus Stars, Showtime, YouTube, and Vimeo.
If you ever have to have a video call with someone who speaks a foreign
language that you don't speak, be sure to check out apps like Navi and Translate.
Now, I'm really curious to hear how you guys use share play.
If you have a favorite app that you use, whether I mentioned it or not,
be sure to let me know about it down below in the comments section.
Thank you so much for watching everyone.
This is David A.
Cox with Tech Talk America.
Class Dismissed.