Continuity Digicam allows you to flip your iPhone into an exterior video enter system on your Mac. The necessities are temporary: iOS 16 or later, any iPhone launched in 2018 or later (the XR period), and any Mac that may run macOS 13 Ventura or later.
In your iPhone, be sure that Settings > Normal > AirPlay & Handoff has Handoff enabled and Continuity Digicam enabled. In your Mac, when the iPhone is close by, you’ll be able to choose your iPhone by title in any app that helps commonplace video enter, like FaceTime or Zoom.
When Continuity Digicam is lively, you’ll be able to Pause or Disconnect it. However you’ll be able to’t pressure it to begin up.
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Nevertheless, I and lots of others have seen glitches for the reason that iOS 17 betas appeared, and so they nonetheless happen with the discharge model:
- The iPhone doesn’t seem when it’s not plugged in through USB when it ought to, as Continuity Digicam can be utilized through Wi-Fi or USB.
- When chosen, the Continuity Digicam iPhone exhibits inside a macOS app, like FaceTime, as a black display screen.
The answer is to flip switches (how irritating!).
- For those who enabled Standby, the side-resting always-on mode beginning in iOS 17, attempt disabling it or toggling it on and off in Settings > Standby.
- Failing that, attempt toggling Continuity Digicam on the setting above.
- If that doesn’t work, attempt toggling Handoff at that location.
I discovered in working by way of options that solely the Handoff toggle labored for me. The failure to work as Continuity Digicam endured by way of restarting my iPhone till I flipped that Handoff change off and again on. Others have discovered that Standby toggling does the trick, whereas nonetheless others disabled and re-enabled Continuity Digicam.
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