FaceTime, Messages, Photos and more Messages
Enrich your FaceTime calls and share in Messages
FaceTime
FaceTime on the web lets others access individual or group calls via their Chrome or Edge web browser without needing Apple hardware to participate, and you can send anyone invitations using web links. Those links and Calendar events ensure that everyone knows when to meet next. For group calls, tile up to 18 callers into a single grid view. Portrait mode puts the focus on the person by blurring the background behind them (M1).
Audio improvements add two modes, one to exclude background sounds in Voice Isolation, the other to do the opposite in Wide Spectrum, useful for voices with music or small groups. Spatial audio places each speaker’s voice in space to help you distinguish them.
Major improvements in Messages come in its new Shared with You feature, which links photos, news, TV, podcasts and web links from a message to the corresponding app. Put a link to an article like a product review or a suggestion for a present into your message, and your friend sees that link appear automatically in Safari’s Start Page and its sidebar. The same applies to links to Photos, Apple’s News, Podcasts and TV apps.
To share several photos at once, put them into a collection, which tiles them together into a collage, or add more to turn it into a stack you can flip through. Photos sent in messages also get an easy Save Photos button at last.