![]() Kickstand: “I wish the system were more flexible. But if it were your exclusive way of calling and you made a lot of calls, I could see that being an issue.” ![]() I wish it was like iMessage and automatically preferred it if you both have iPhones, and approved the feature.”Ĭodemonkey85: “For what it’s worth, I did some testing with FaceTime Audio, and even FaceTime Video, over the cell network – and neither seemed to use all that much data. Weedwhacking: “I love FT audio and almost exclusively use it, when i know the other party has an iPhone. Instead I just take my phone calls outside.” I can’t seem to get anyone to understand the advantages of voice over data. My boss always calls me over cellular and I never have signal in the office. The topic of FaceTime Audio came up in a recent Reddit thread, and the folks there had some interesting comments that I’ll leave you with as I end this post:ĭuckTruckMuck: “Why is it nobody uses FaceTime Audio? And how can we get the word out without sounding condescending/elitist?Ĭreatures of habit? A stigma about FaceTime? Overlooking the option? Every iPhone to iPhone call I make is over FTA because of how clear it is. Why don’t more people use FaceTime Audio? My guess is that you’ll notice a big difference in the quality of the sound when using FaceTime Audio. Think I’m kidding? Go ahead and try using FaceTime Audio instead of making a traditional phone call, and then go back to the regular phone call. It’s gotten to the point where I actually hate making regular phone calls to people using Android phones or other calls that can’t be made with FaceTime Audio. At first I thought that this might be a fluke, but the more I used FaceTime Audio the more I noticed how consistent the quality of the calls were on my iPhone 6s Plus. One of the things I’ve noticed while using FaceTime Audio is that my calls usually sound a lot better than a regular phone call. FaceTime Audio calls sound better than regular phone calls You will see the length of your FaceTime Audio call and the amount of data you used while making the call. Tap on the blue “i” next to the time of your call.Ĥ. How to check your FaceTime Audio data usage for a callĪfter you’ve made a FaceTime Audio call, you can always check to see how much data you used by doing the following:ģ. FaceTime Audio uses significantly less data since it doesn’t transmit video. …FaceTime wins the video chat race in virtually every way - the picture quality is better, it’s more convenient to use on Macs and iOS devices and - this one’s a biggie - it actually works consistently and properly.Īnd remember that that’s actually FaceTime Video that Mac Kung Fu is talking about. Which uses the least bandwidth? Well, at the risk of sounding like those crummy clickbait blogs, the answer will surprise you! There’s a handful of ways of video chatting/conferencing with people, including Skype, Facebook Messenger, and Apple’s own FaceTime. Mac Kung Fu posted some results about which video chats use the least amount of data and the results might surprise you: So unless you have a very small data plan, you should be able to use FaceTime Audio regularly without eating up too much of your data allotment.Įven FaceTime video calls don’t use as much data as people think. The amount of data used by a FaceTime audio call varies, but it is significantly less that the amount of data used for a video call.įive minutes of FaceTime audio calling uses up to 3 MB of data. The iPhone FAQ notes that five minutes of FaceTime Audio calling uses up about 3MB of data: One of the biggest myths about FaceTime Audio is that it uses large amounts of data for calls, but that’s not necessarily true. It’s probably used significantly less than even FaceTime video calls, and that’s a real shame. It’s almost as if the feature doesn’t exist on their iPhones. And yet many people just don’t bother with FaceTime Audio.
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