How to have
A 3 Way Facetime Call
How to Use Group FaceTime on iPhone
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hi everyone welcome back to genius
lounge I'm your host Matt Troutman
genius lounge is the place where we take
tech and we make it accessible to mere
mortals today we're gonna talk about
group face time in this current climate
where we're social distancing ourselves
and making sure that we're not
interacting with people in real life we
want to make sure that you can actually
contact the people that you love and not
just one at a time so group face time is
a great alternative to actually meeting
in person so let's go ahead and jump in
on our phone and I'm gonna show you how
to do that so the first way to do this
is actually through the FaceTime app so
I'm gonna go ahead and I'm gonna tap on
FaceTime in the upper left hand corner
here and from here I'm gonna tap the
little plus in the upper right hand
corner this allows me to add people to
my chat so in this case I'm gonna go
ahead and I'm gonna add myself and I'm
going to add my add then for genius
lounge and now you'll see both of these
items show up as blue which means that
they're both able to receive FaceTime
calls in this case I can go ahead and
click video and it will initiate a
FaceTime video call now you can also do
group chats kind of like a conference
call if you want to do just audio you
can click the audio button right here
and that will connect you all together
as an audio call for this video we're
gonna go ahead and we're gonna take a
look at video calls so I'm gonna tap
video and the parties that you've
invited should get a notification on
their devices inviting them to the call
and while we're waiting for them you'll
see this I'm gonna go ahead and from my
other device I'm gonna accept the call
so now that I've accepted I see my face
on both screens here we're still waiting
for admin at genius lounge he's kind of
lazy and he doesn't like to join in to
these calls so what I can do is actually
if I wanted to focus on one particular
individual I can tap on them so let me
show you how that works
you tap on that you can then take that
mostly fullscreen and give them focus so
then you can look at one particular
individual if they're the one talking
you can definitely give them that focus
and then you can also tap and you can
return back with the two or three
parties if you've got multiple parties
in here the person who's speaking well
actually come to the foreground and it
will kind of float bigger and it's kind
of this fluid feel to the whole
experience which is kind of fun because
that way it gives focus to the person
who's talking another great way to start
a group FaceTime is to use your messages
app if you've got a group chat going
with all of your friends that use
iPhones you can do so super easily from
the messages group so let's take a look
at that I'm just gonna tap on messages
down here and I see that I've already
got a group chat going and fishie wants
to know if we want to group FaceTime so
the really cool part here is all you
have to do is tap up here on this group
of people and then you can click on
FaceTime and that's going to launch into
a group FaceTime call alright so now we
know how to make calls let's take a look
at how to join a group call if we're
invited when you're invited to a group
FaceTime call you'll see a notification
on your phone pop-up or if someone
chooses to ring you that can actually
send a call notification to your phone
just like you were receiving a regular
phone call or a regular FaceTime but if
you miss one of those and the call is
still going on you can still join in so
let's take a look at that so if I open
up my FaceTime app I can see that this
is going on right now and it says tap to
join so I'm gonna go ahead and tap that
and join the group FaceTime
and to confirm I'm gonna click the green
join button and there we go
now the other thing I can do is I can
actually join straight from my messages
app as well if it was initiated in that
group chat so I'm gonna tap the messages
app right here and I see that there is a
group FaceTime going on right now and I
can tell it join and just like that
you're able to join in with an ongoing
FaceTime call I hope this video helped
you so that if you're not able to meet
with your friends and family in person
that you'll be able to join together
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I'm Matt Troutman and we'll see you
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