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• APPLE FACETIME SHAREPLAY WWDC TV

I wish I could be as effusive about the other built-in SharePlay modes for listening to music or watching movies and TV shows together on FaceTime. I love it, and I look forward to solving my mom’s iPhone problems with it.

Whoever thought of building this feature inside FaceTime at Apple should get an award. Screen sharing built into iOS and iPadOS will be incredible for tech support with family members or friends who are having issues with their devices starting with iOS 15.1, you can just tell them to hop on FaceTime, press the rectangle icon, and you’ll be able to see their screen. I had a feeling this would be the case, but after testing it, I’m convinced that screen sharing will be the most popular and useful SharePlay feature for all Apple users. When I was watching John’s screen, I could still see him in a floating window in the corner of the FaceTime UI. In my tests with screen sharing in FaceTime over Wi-Fi, image quality from John’s iPad was great, with minimal degradation that did not prevent me from reading small text such as text inside widgets on John’s Home Screen. Here, the number of apps and unread badges suggests only one thing: this is John’s Home Screen.

When you’re watching someone else’s screen, you still see them in FaceTime’s Picture in Picture mode. You can tap a new purple screen sharing icon in the status bar to bring up a contextual FaceTime menu (new in iOS and iPadOS 15) that tells you who’s viewing the screen and gives you controls to stop screen sharing and tweak settings for audio and microphone. You can then exit the FaceTime app and show whatever you want to show on your iPhone and iPad to other people, who will see everything you’re doing on the device. When you start sharing your screen, FaceTime will play a countdown and tell you that notifications will be hidden while your screen is being shared. Powered by SharePlay, pressing the rectangle-with-a-person button in FaceTime will now let you share your screen with other people on a FaceTime call. I think, however, that more than TV or Music, the sleeper hit that makes for the best SharePlay demo is a new button that has been added to the main FaceTime UI: screen sharing. Call participants have the ability to pause, play, rewind, or otherwise control what is being played over SharePlay Apple famously demoed SharePlay with the ability to watch Apple TV+ or listen to Apple Music together, and those are the kind of experiences you can look forward to testing right after updating to iOS 15.1. This is the most important point to understand about SharePlay, and one that confused a few MacStories readers over the summer: SharePlay isn’t an asynchronous, iCloud-based collaboration feature similar to shared Notes or Reminders: it’s a FaceTime feature that takes place within a FaceTime call. At a high level, SharePlay is a way for you to either listen, watch, or collaborate on something together with other people while a FaceTime call is active.

Its only downside, frankly, is that it’s a year too late.īut let’s start from the beginning. I tested SharePlay with FaceTime over the past week while I continue to believe this is the kind of “pandemic feature” that would have been a lot more useful to more people during the lockdowns of 2020, it is quite a technical achievement, and it’s been nicely implemented by Apple. The big-ticket item of iOS and iPadOS 15.1 is SharePlay, which is a way for iPhone and iPad users to have “synchronized experiences” with others when using certain apps during a FaceTime call. Don’t expect a large collection of changes from this release, though: 15.1 mostly focuses on enabling SharePlay (which was announced at WWDC, then postponed to a later release a few months ago), rolling Safari back to a reasonable design, and bringing a few tweaks for the Camera app and spatial audio. Screen sharing in FaceTime with SharePlay (left) and the updated Safari for iPad.Īlongside macOS Monterey, Apple today released iOS and iPadOS 15.1 – the first major updates to the operating systems introduced last month.