You’ll need to have the latest MacOS Ventura and the latest iOS installed, but here’s a good primer: Guide to Getting Started with Continuity Camera. What’s Continuity Camera? A feature that now lets you use a paired iPhone camera as input for any program that works with video in MacOS. Shortcuts: FaceTime Basics | Blur/Portrait Effect | Continuity Camera Effects
With years of us all stuck with online meetings it seems like this would have been a high-profile project that helped millions of Mac users have a better experience, but in fact, FaceTime hasn’t evolved that much other than in max participant count, particularly when compared to the constantly improving Zoom program.Ĭontinuity Camera is one of the very first meaningful FaceTime app improvements on the Mac side for rather a while, and, to be fair, it is pretty cool. While Apple has worked on making FaceTime more useful over the last few years, it’s surprising what you can and cannot do with this handy video conferencing tool.