Facetime: What It Is and How to Make It Calls on iPhone

This guide explains Facetime, why it matters, how it works, and how to evaluate or use it in practical situations.

1. What is Facetime?

FaceTime is a calling app between Apple devices like iPhone / iPad and Mac computers. Facetime was first announced at the same time as the iPhone 4 with front camera and Facetime application can use the front camera to make video calls. Today, the application of calling and messaging via the Internet called OTT (Over The Top) is developing flourish such as Google Hangout, Messenger, Zalo. but FaceTime still has a large number of users because when making calls via FaceTime will display the contacts in the iPhone's contacts and the person called can easily recognize you. The biggest downside of FaceTime is that it only applies on Apple devices and not on Android phones.

2. How to make Facetime calls on iPhone

To make Facetime calls on iPhone, we must turn on Facetime on iPhones first. How to do the following.

Step 1: Go to Settings => FaceTime => Set FaceTime switch to On

Step 2: Log in to your Apple ID account.

Step 3: Open your phone => Contacts and try to open any contacts that have Facetime enabled as shown below. You click on the video icon to make a FaceTime call and click on the headset icon to make an audio FaceTime call.

Dial-up interface for calling FaceTime

Audio FaceTime call (left) and video FaceTime (right)

Through this article, you understand what FaceTime is and how to make FaceTime calls on iPhone. You should use FaceTime regularly when contacting with friends to help the conversation be comfortable without having to worry about call charges. Good luck!