Mac OS Ventura has finally been released and with it came a brand new genius
feature from Apple why buy another really expensive webcam for your web
conferencing if you don't like the built-in webcam like the 1080p one on
the 16-inch MacBook Pro what you could simply use your iPhone's webcam which is
by far better than any other webcam you can find anywhere I mean this is killer
and the best part about it is that every time you upgrade your iPhone to a new
one your webcam basically gets even better and of course I'm talking about
the brand new continuity camera feature that Apple showed off in June at WWDC
and it is finally released and official so in this video I'm going to go through
a setup and a tutorial guide including all the different settings and
everything else you need to know to use continuity camera so let's jump right
into it you can see on my display right here it says use iPhone as a webcam of
course I already have Mac OS Ventura installed right here and it says
continue with the camera lets your iPhone be a webcam for your Mac when
both devices are near each other which I have it right here it automatically
connects which is awesome you have your visual effects even your desk view which
I'm going to show you guys so let's hit continue so getting right into it I have
photo booth open right here which is a good app to kind of show the webcam and
as you can see the quality is pretty bad it's honestly not too great so let's
test out continuity camera now check out how easy it is to turn this on you
literally just go up to the camera tab in the menu bar you can see it's set to
FaceTime HD camera all you got to do is click on the iPhone camera right here
and watch it switch hey there you go wow that quality is insane that is
incredibly good camera quality look at that now of course you're not going to
be holding your iPhone while doing a Web Conference you've got to mount it
somehow to basically the top of your MacBook and that is why you're going to
need some sort of accessory like moff's new laptop phone holder which basically
connects to the top of your MacBook you basically can flip it out to the side or
you can go up so let me show you how easy it is let me first use this little
sticker to attach it to the MacBook now the goal of getting this mounted
correctly is to put it in the corner of your Macbook so that way you can flip it
out like this to mount your iPhone on the side or you can flip it up like that
to use for continuity camera so all you got to do is simply take the little
adhesive protector off there you go we have our sticker flip it over line it up
and stick it on there you go apply some pressure make sure it's stuck on good
and one thing I really like is the clean moff logo on the back with this nice
vegan leather texture and now that it's set up all you do is you grab it from
the back flip it over and then Mount your iPhone right on the side like this
and I do recommend using a Max save compatible case to make the magnetic
strength A Little Bit Stronger like moff's snap case right here and there
you go you have like a secondary iPhone display which you can use let's say
browse Twitter whatever while you're working on your MacBook for example or
of course you can mount it on the other side if you want to which you usually
wouldn't do because for continuity camera we actually want to use it just
like this you flip up the phone holder and then you can mount your iPhone like
this again as a secondary display but now in widescreen view so that you can
let's say watch some videos or movies while you're working but we're actually
going to flip it to the other side just like that and now we have our iPhone set
up facing us giving us awesome continuity camera quality literally the
best webcam you can get so with that said you'll find a link to moth's laptop
phone holder down in the description and pinned comment below but now getting
back into the continuity camera tutorial and guide as you can see we say it back
up and now check this out this quality comparison between the actual webcam on
the 16 inch MacBook Pro which is now better it's 1080p with really good
software and the new ISP and you can tell that the quality is so much better
you literally can't beat it and once again let me mention that every time you
upgrade your iPhone you're getting a webcam upgrade with continuity camera
which makes it so amazing and worth it compared to spending a couple hundred
dollars or more on an actual Pro 4k camera or webcam but now with that said
let's jump back into FaceTime which is where a lot of people are actually going
to use this other apps like Zoom Google meets whatever you want to use once
again we go to that video Tab and click on the iPhone camera bam we get a huge
increase in quality that is just insane let's do a quick little face time and
there you go you can see that we have our little FaceTime window right here
and you can actually click this little button for the background blur effects
which using the actual iPhone camera makes this so much more clean and
accurate compared to using the webcam I mean it looks amazing you blur out your
background but the really cool thing is the new desk view which you can just
click that button right there and it's going to pop it up whoa look at that
okay so let's share the desk view wow this is weird look
if you have it set up like this it could literally be showing stuff off or like
your keyboard whatever desk you that looks pretty cool actually if you want
to show something or anything else bam I'm surprised this works so well using
the ultra wide camera and then you could actually zoom in more
it's kind of weird oh there you go look at that that is zoomed out quite a lot
that's cool that you can do that let's show some stuff off hey I mean like I
guess there are some use cases where this is actually very useful and wow
it's cool you probably wouldn't want it that zoomed in so look at that we have
these little FaceTime settings where you can change the shared view share the
entire screen now even better you could actually switch to using your iPhone's
microphones instead of the built-in ones inside of your Macbook so I'll just go
up to the video Tab and you can see right here just go into Max's iPhone
microphone right there and now it is using it for the audio that's going to
be useful if let's say you have an older MacBook but still Mac OS Ventura but the
microphones are not that great especially on some older MacBooks
compared to let's say you just got a brand new iPhone with killer microphones
you're gonna get much better quality out of your iPhone's mics and now I know
with this corner set up for the mop tone holder you could have it kind of off to
the side if you want the display view or you can have it like this and it's a
little bit off balance in terms of not being centered with the MacBook but of
course you could also ticket right here on the back for a more direct view so if
you wanted a perfectly centered image you just basically grab your iPhone with
a moft holder on it line it up to be perfectly where you would like it and
then kind of save that spot and stick it right there and there you
go using it with this method we have a perfectly centered image just like with
your regular webcam this is the way I would probably do it if I really wanted
to use continuity camera all the time with the great video quality just look
at that that is amazing so basically there you guys go that's continuity
camera using your iPhone and mops phone holder this is basically the best way to
do it if you want the absolute greatest webcam quality of course let me remind
you you have to have Mac OS Ventura so that's available now go ahead and
download it test out this feature it basically Works automatically you just
go up into the video Tab and choose your iPhone camera that is it that's super
convenient and I think this is probably the best webcam you can buy so go ahead
and check out mom's phone holder down in the description and pinned comment below
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