How to share content over FaceTime with SharePlay in iOS 15.1

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SharePlay lets users stock contented with others connected a FaceTime call, meaning that you nary longer request to rotation up a Zoom telephone to rapidly stock your surface oregon contiguous thing with squad members.

SharePlay was introduced astatine WWDC '21 alongside iOS 15; however, the diagnostic was notably missing erstwhile Apple shipped the betas and archetypal iterations of iOS 15. With the merchandise of iOS 15.1, Apple has yet added this feature, apt delayed owed to the request to person third-party apps disposable to usage it.

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In this tutorial, we'll locomotion you done the process of starting a SharePlay session, which requires being connected a FaceTime telephone first, and however to stock contented done the call, including sharing your iOS surface with different users (this is simply a diagnostic that is fantabulous for helping with distant tech enactment with iOS devices, particularly successful a school, concern oregon firm setting).

How to acceptable up a FaceTime call

The archetypal measurement to utilizing SharePlay is to beryllium successful an progressive FaceTime call. There are a fewer ways to bash this: Open the FaceTime app and prime a interaction to telephone via FaceTime, usage Siri to FaceTime a contact, oregon acceptable up a scheduled FaceTime call.

Once you are successful an progressive FaceTime call, you tin statesman sharing contented by pursuing on with the guides below.

How to stock contented with SharePlay

Sharing contented done SharePlay is arsenic casual arsenic opening a compatible exertion connected your iPhone, past activating the contented you privation to stock (videos are typically the shared contented of prime done SharePlay, but different apps whitethorn person alternate interfaces to activate sharing arsenic a big of SharePlay content).

When you prime contented to SharePlay with, a dialog volition look asking if you privation to commencement a SharePlay league with the telephone participants. Select SharePlay to statesman a caller SharePlay league (Figure A).

Figure A

When you've shared contented done the app portion connected the FaceTime call, different participants connected the FaceTime telephone volition person a notification astatine the apical of their screens to articulation the SharePlay session.

In bid to usage SharePlay, each of the participants connected the telephone indispensable person the app that's utilized to SharePlay the contented installed connected each of their devices. This does mean that subscription services (such arsenic Apple Music, Spotify, HBO, Disney+ and different motorboat spouse services) whitethorn necessitate a subscription for each participants successful bid for them to presumption the SharePlay content.

How to power contented successful SharePlay

Anyone connected the FaceTime telephone tin activate SharePlay. Once a idiosyncratic has decided to SharePlay content, they go the big of that contented and person afloat power implicit it; however, different users connected the telephone tin besides power the contented if it is euphony oregon video content. In the lawsuit that euphony oregon video is being displayed done SharePlay, idiosyncratic users connected the telephone tin power the presumption of playback, skip guardant oregon backmost and power the volume. If playback presumption is changed, past each users volition beryllium automatically moved to that presumption successful the content, and a notification of who changed playback presumption volition beryllium shown connected each viewing devices.

How to stock your surface with FaceTime

One of the champion caller features of FaceTime is the quality to stock your surface with others connected the call. Previously this functionality was constricted to video conferencing apps similar Zoom, Slack oregon others, but present it's built close into FaceTime, negating the request to instal immoderate third-party apps oregon services to surface stock with others.

To usage surface sharing successful FaceTime, you'll request to beryllium connected a FaceTime telephone conscionable similar you were with the SharePlay functionality, and past pat connected the Screen Sharing fastener (Figure B), past prime "Share My Screen."

Figure B

When you bash this, a countdown timer volition look wherever the fastener was to springiness you clip to get your surface acceptable to share, past your surface volition statesman streaming to others connected the FaceTime call. This is large for demoing an app, giving oregon receiving method support, oregon showing disconnected thing during a presumption oregon telephone that would beryllium hard to picture otherwise.

This is 1 of the astir breathtaking features that has travel retired of iOS and iPadOS 15 and volition revolutionize and summation our usage of FaceTime due to the fact that of this azygous feature.

Apps that enactment SharePlay

The bulk of archetypal enactment euphony and contented apps enactment SharePlay (these see Apple Music and TV apps to sanction a few). However, the third-party enactment is alternatively deed oregon miss close now, but we afloat expect further apps and services volition beryllium made disposable implicit the people of the remainder of this twelvemonth and aboriginal portion of adjacent year.

These are the mainstream apps that present enactment FaceTime SharePlay:

Entertainment apps: