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Expand The Possibilities Of FaceTime
Mar 11, 2025
A video how-to detailing ways to expand the usefulness of FaceTime. If you like this how-to check out more at: http://www.cultofmac.com I also make tech related videos on my personal YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/MSComputerVideos
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hey everyone today I'm going to show you
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how you can make FaceTime more useful
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now when FaceTime came out it it was a
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neat little service you know it's a
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video conference with people uh but for
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me at least the novelty grew off rather
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fast but with a couple simple tweaks to
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FaceTime you can actually use it as a
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home monitoring type of a home security
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kind of system as well as just a webcam
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you know if you wanted to talk to people
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even just across the
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so for this you're going to need two
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FaceTime capable devices in this case
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I'll be using my iMac as well as my iPod
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touch the first thing you're going to
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have to do is go on to your Mac and open
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up
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FaceTime now from here you're going to
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be able to sign in with an Apple ID or
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if you don't have one you can click
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create new account and you can create a
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new account right from here uh but since
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I do have one I'm going to sign in here
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and for this all the workout you're
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going to need two Apple IDs so I'm
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guessing most of you will have to create
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one uh just because most people probably
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don't have two so I'm going to sign in
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with this and then I'm going to do the
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same thing on my iPod Touch so now on my
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iPod I'm going to go into settings and
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I'm going to scroll down to FaceTime and
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from here I can also create a new
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account if I didn't have one and I can
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do the same setup
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process uh but then I'm going to sign in
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here and now I'm all set up and ready to
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go I have FaceTime sign in on both
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devices and you have to have a different
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Apple ID because if you try to call
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yourself with just one Apple ID it's not
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going to work just because it identifies
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it as the same pretty much phone number
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if you want to call it but in this case
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it identifies you as pretty much two
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different people because you have a
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different email address set up for each
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device so now basically what you can do
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from here is you can call yourself so
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this is kind of neat so basically what
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I'm going to do is I'm going to go on to
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one of my devices and I'm going to call
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the other Apple ID that I set up on the
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other device so I'm just going to click
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the email address in this
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case and it's going to show up on the
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other
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device that I can accept the call and
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from here you can see that I can see on
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my Mac uh what is showing up wherever I
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have my iPod touch and this can work
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either way so you know opposite way with
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the iPod touch or whatever you want and
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I can see everything that's happening
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you know uh here's my hand first of all
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if you're going to leave for a while now
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not like for days or anything but and
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you wanted to kind of monitor you know
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make sure there wasn't any suspicious
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activity you could set this up and
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record the screen on your Mac and have a
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little bit of a rigged up security
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system in that sense now there's a
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downfall to this because you are using
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data over the Internet so this is not
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assing you're going to want to leave
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sitting on 24/7 because if you have a
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data cap on your plan and most isps do
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you're going to run out eventually if
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you have streaming data
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24/7 another useful application would be
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to watch for somebody at the door that
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you're waiting for or something like
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that if you're in another room and maybe
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you you not going to hear the doorbell
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you could have this set up and you know
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your iPod just facing out the window and
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you can see whenever that person shows
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up and you know when they walk up you'd
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see them you could also use it as some
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type of a baby monitor if you want to
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see what your child's doing that another
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useful application and even just to talk
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to other people on the other side of the
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house if you need to uh you could use it
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for that too so there's a lot of
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different things you can do with this
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and it's pretty handy uh on once you
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think about it the possibilities are
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really endless for what you can use this
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for and it's just a simple and easy way
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to expand the possibilities and the
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usefulness of FaceTime so I hope you
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found this video useful and thank you
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for watching
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