How to use FaceTime on your Apple TV 4K | Apple Support

We'll teach you how to use FaceTime on your Apple TV 4K using your iPhone or iPad camera, starting in tvOS 17. FaceTime on Apple TV is only available on Apple TV 4K (2nd generation and later), and with iPhone and iPad devices using iOS 17 and iPadOS 17.

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[donmullins]

This would be perfect with standalone wireless camera support!

[GabrielParafita]

I’ve been using it since the beta version and it’s great!! We have a family member living abroad and it’s awesome to bring the whole family together on the big screen :)

[supercarshiv]

I’ve been wanting this for years and it’s finally here! It would be so cool to have a dedicated webcam on the TV though.

[marcoyanez]

Very nice for family reunions more on holidays but definitely the setup is not Senior friendly. Will be 1000% more easy if the new Apple TV come with camera integrated 🎥

[cottagekeeper]

Wish it were easier so I could show my elderly parents how to do this. 😢

[mikewolf]

A cool thing that I discovered is you can change the microphone audio modes when using FaceTime on the Apple TV. Just go click the continuity setting icon in the control center on the Apple TV.

[chadjimenez]

Wish it was also available for Apple TV 4K first generation but you know, whatever.

[ibrahimnaqibone]

This is so great, now I might actually buy a tv, I already Apple tv+ on all my Apple Devices, I think I’ll just get one of these TVs now, I feel like 📺 actually used to be super cool, and now that we have way cooler screens all around us all I ever do is go on my phone and other cool devices, but having my friends life size on any big screen that I want in the house for everyone to be there, and now we have Centre Stage on devices as well(the thing that centres yourself into the frame wherever you are so that it really feels like they’re life size in the room), super cool anyway.

I’ll probably get one of these (an Apple TV I mean, because another benefit is that my iPhones Front Camera the one that I can shoot photos with, that has literally such good image quality, and I have the iPhone 12 ✨👌🤩

Great for chilling with mates virtually! 😂

[midipig]

Can Apple make an AppleTV with built-in FaceTime Camera and a built-in HomePod soundbar?

[needleontherecord]

Tried it a number of times. It’s really buggy and didn’t work after connected. This was the same for both iPad and iPhone.

[Future-Theory]

I've been pulling my hair out trying to get this to work with family overseas. We just can't seem to get it up and running on both TV's. It needs to just work automatically. With all the steps, it's too hard for older people to figure out.

[CA.....]

Good, and long overdue - but wish TV's had built-in camera so could still use iPhone as remote during FaceTime.

[BrentHartleyTravel]

In your demo you show widescreen video, but whenever I do a call I'm not seeing the person I am calling in widescreen even when they change the orientation of their iphone and are in landscape. I'm shown in the preview as widescreen.

[Alfareview]

Please fix Apple TV FaceTime ‘no user’ issue where ot doesn’t show any user’ . Seems to be impacting users who changed their Apple ID…?

[Kimyumoto]

To all the people who have issues connecting to FaceTime. You’re not alone this is a widespread issue and a lot of people have been contacting Apple support about this with no resolution because it’s a software issue. Hopefully it will be addressed in the next TVOS and iOS/iPadOS update.

[sathyanarayananvenkatasubban]

what about 1st generation apple tv 4k ?

[alexmachine]

Is there a way to use the ultra wide camera? Our TV is too close to get everyone in the shot.

[michaelvance]

Can we please have the option to answer a call on Apple TV? The way it is now, there is no way for two people to be using FaceTime both on Apple TVs.

[wrxrox]

Have iPhone 14 Pro Max running iOS 17 and latest 4K Apple TV and call fails every time. Looking forward to an update to fix this

[pratyakshgupta]

I wonder how many people would use this feature. Seems good for large scale calls but still a good feature nonetheless