hi this is gary with macmost.com today
let me show you how to do a group
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now it's fairly easy to start a group
FaceTime call basically what you do is
you start a regular FaceTime call with
one other person and then you or that
other person just adds more people to
the call if you're going to start off
just like you're making a FaceTime call
to one other person so I'm going to run
the FaceTime app here and then in the
sidebar I'm going to see my recent calls
that I've made not can select one of
those to start video chatting with that
one person I can also enter a name email
address or phone number here for an
email address it should be somebody's
Apple ID a phone number should be an
iPhone phone number or the name could be
the name of somebody in her contacts
where you have their Apple ID or iPhone
phone number so you can use any one of
those so I'm going to enter in an Apple
ID here and when I hit return
I should see both audio and video
available if video isn't available that
just simply means they don't have the
capability for video chatting maybe it's
just a phone number where they haven't
hooked up FaceTime or something like
that or maybe they're not even using an
Apple product and that's just a regular
phone number so I'm going to hit video
and it should call that other computer
which in this case is a MacBook Pros
sitting next to me so I'm going to get
the notification there and I'm going to
accept and then I'll see the camera for
that other person show up here I can see
my self here at the top right I can see
the other person here and if I look over
at that MacBook Pro I'll see the
opposite so it's just a simple regular
FaceTime with one other person so how do
I start a group FaceTime well all I need
to do is add somebody else so here on a
Mac you can click on this little button
here to bring up the sidebar if I were
to make this full screen so I'll hit
this button here then bringing up the
sidebar would actually bring it up in
this blank space here and I can hit pad
person so I can hit plus and now I can
enter in somebody else here so let me
enter in for an iPad that is right here
and now you can see I get a green Add
button here at the
I'll do that and that's going to ring an
iPad that I've got and now once I've
joined that on the iPad you'll should
see that camera appear here
so now you can see I've got a
three-person chat going on so when
you're asked to enter in an Apple ID or
phone number there you can enter in more
than one so way back at the beginning
instead of just starting with one person
you could have entered two or three or
everybody that you wanted to join the
call and then just started the call by
inviting everybody at once instead of
starting with just one the same thing
here when you add a new person to the
call you could add two or three or as
many as you want and invite several
people with one click of the joint
button so I am at the bottom right hand
corner here which is me on my Mac Pro
then I've got me right here that's on
the MacBook Pro and then I've got me
right here that's on the iPad and you
can see I have the two windows here I
can double click on one and it actually
puts it in the center and fades this
other one away and I can just click
outside of that to show them all double
click on that one and it brings that
there as well now anybody that's in on
this group chat can add somebody else
but if somebody else were to call into
one of us it would simply ask us to in
the current call and go to the new one
or decline that new call so it has to be
some of the in the group already so I'm
going to click here and add a person and
add someone else I'm going to add my
iPhone now and hit add and that's going
to ring on my iPhone and I'm going to
accept that so now I have four people in
on this call so let me close the sidebar
here and you can see I've got these
three windows so I can now choose which
one I want to look at mainly by clicking
on it and that one will get a little
larger than the rest if I click this
little button here in the bottom
right-hand corner of each window it puts
that one in the center but otherwise I
just get a slightly larger version of
the one that I want and this here is
what it looks like on my iPhone so you
can see it stacks them up vertically of
course because it's much more vertical
space if I were to turn my iPhone
sideways this is how I get it always the
smallest one is my own camera and the
larger ones are for the other people I'm
talking to and I can tap on any one of
those to Center more on that one person
and this is what it looks like on my
iPad so very
similar to how it looks full screen on
the Mac and I could tap on any one of
those as well and I have basically the
same buttons FaceTime is extremely
similar between iPhone iPad and Mac now
for anybody exit the call all I need to
do is hit this red button here and
they'll be out of the call the other
people won't be kicked out at all so
they'll be able to stay in there as a
matter of fact the last person in the
room will still be there in the room in
case somebody is going to come back and
rejoin the room in a few minutes now
let's say you want to start this whole
thing on your iPhone so I'll go into the
FaceTime app with my iPhone and I can
select a previous conversation there or
I can hit the plus button at the top I
think an injury and an Apple ID here and
once I do I could see the video button
there at the bottom so I could start it
right here on my iPhone and I'll answer
that call here on my iPad so now I'm
chatting from iPhone to iPad here now if
I wanted to add somebody extra on my
iPhone like a tab and you can see I have
those buttons at the bottom if I grab
the handle above those buttons and I
drag up you can see I've got options
here or I could add a person so I can
tap that and then add somebody else and
if I tap the return key I should see add
a person to FaceTime at the bottom as
long as that's a valid FaceTime Apple ID
then I could tap that and answer that on
in this case my desktop Mac and now I
could see the three of us talking here
on the iPad it's similar you should see
a little box here in the bottom with
those buttons if you don't see it just
tap on some blind space on the screen it
should come up I can track the little
top handle there bring that up and
there's bad person now the big problem
with using FaceTime like this is
everybody has to have an Apple product
FaceTime only works on iPhones iPads and
Macs so if somebody in the group is say
using a Windows machine or an Android
phone then you really can't do group
FaceTime you're gonna have to go with
another solution like Skype zoom or
Google Hangouts another thing to look
out for is when you join a call
sometimes you join and you're straight
in with video other times you can join
the call but you still have to press a
green video camera button in order to
enable your camera so if nobody could
see you look for that green button or if
somebody else joins but you don't see
video of them maybe
tell them to look for that green camera
but a cool feature is if you want to
start up the same group FaceTime
conversation with the same people you
should see it in your recent list and
you can join that call and then the
other people will get notifications and
they could join it as well you don't
have to go and re-add everybody I
remember who was on that call I
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