Hi peeps, I’m wondering if anyone knows what’s going on here …
For years now, every week I’ve had a FaceTime chat with a mate of mine. He says hello in Messages, I tap the top right camera button and from the dropdown choose FaceTime video, it rings, it connects and we have our chat. Sometimes he calls, I answer and we have our video chat. Simple. Lovely. 🙂 I have an iPad in the lounge when I do this. I have an iMac upstairs, an iPhone next door and an Apple Watch on my wrist. This setup has been in place for just under a year (take the watch out of the picture and that setup has been the same since the M1 iMac came out). In the last month or so it’s all gone crazy. Tonight he calls, as we’ve just messaged hello on my iPad in Messages. It says a call is coming from him - the iPad rings, the phone rings and so does my watch. In Messages there is a green Join button, I tap it but nothing happens and I cannot answer it there, they all continue ringing. On my watch it says “Do FaceTime audio” and if I answer it there then it answers but I’m talking to him on my watch with no video (sort of a bit Thunderbirds!). I cancel the call. If I then try to call him from Messages with the Join button nothing happens. I then call in FaceTime itself and it connects but without sound. The red X button does nothing at all and the only way to stop it is by swiping up to kill FaceTime. Now, when I return to Messages, instead of Join in green I have the camera button again, I tap it, choose FaceTime video and it then connects and we can have a chat. I have absolutely no idea if it’s Apple or me but what used to be quick, painless and simple has now turned into a consistent, week after week, convoluted mess. 😢 Any ideas what has happened.? (Sorry this is so long …) All devices are on the latest OS. Stephen You meet your destiny on the road you take to avoid it. ~ Carl Jung -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/smug/57ACFD9E-807F-43E5-9F1A-7CE0AAF83337%40icloud.com.
