I don’t FaceTime a lot, however I’ve steadily been accused of not “showing current” in varied video chats as a result of I are likely to stare on the display, not the digicam pointing at me, at any time when I’m speaking or watching others communicate. And since there’s no scarcity of technological innovation on this planet, Apple has discovered an answer for this situation inside FaceTime calls.
To get began, you’ll wish to set up iOS 14 — which you can get right now — and launch the Settings app. No, you shouldn’t launch FaceTime (which is the place you would possibly first suppose to seek out this setting). You’ll as an alternative wish to go to Settings > FaceTime, the place you ought to see an choice to allow and disable “Eye Contact.” That’s the choice that can make your eyes artificially appear to be they’re staring on the digicam when they don’t seem to be. Sure, that doesn’t get any much less creepy-sounding to sort.
How to Change Your Default Browser on iOS/iPadOS
Uninterested in Safari in your iPhone or iPad? You possibly can set up loads of different nice alternate options from the App Retailer — no downside there. However if you wish to use them as your default browser in your gadget, you’ll have to leap by way of just a few additional hoops.
The kicker, although, is that you simply may not even have this feature in any respect. As I perceive it, Apple is proscribing “Eye Contact” to solely these telephones which can be at least as technologically advanced because the iPhone XS and iPhone XR. I’m unsure if that features the second-generation iPhone SE or not, because it lacks a TrueDepth digicam (if that’s the qualifier), nevertheless it does run a extra fashionable processor (A13 Bionic) than the iPhone XS and iPhone XR.
In different phrases, your iPhone 11 ought to see the characteristic; my iPhone X doesn’t. Although my iPhone additionally has a TrueDepth digicam, its processor (an A11 Bionic) is one technology behind the iPhone XD and iPhone XR. So, I suppose I’m caught. No pretend eyes for me — or, slightly, no adjusted eyes, I ought to say.
You Can Unlock YouTube’s Picture-in-Picture Mode in iOS 14
Image-in-picture mode is coming to iOS 14 (soon-ish?), however when it does, it in all probability received’t be out there for the one video app you seemingly use greater than another: YouTube. That can change quickly, too — YouTube is rolling out assist for picture-in-picture mode proper now — however odds are…
I don’t imagine this characteristic comes enabled by default in iOS 14, so that you’ll want to show it on your self if you wish to dramatically improve your presence the following time you chat with your mates or colleagues. It’s quirky and foolish, however something to make us all really feel like we’re having extra human interactions proper now is an efficient factor, proper?
This text was initially printed in September 2020.
