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Christmas is all about spending time with family, but what if your loved ones live miles away, or in another country?
While it’s not quite the same as time spent together in person, there is a solution: now there is Group FaceTime.
If you have an iPhone, you’ve probably used FaceTime to stay in touch with family, friends and business colleagues before. Now thanks to the app Fam, you you can chat with everyone you love at the same time, which is perfect for Christmas time. Here’s how it works:
How to Group FaceTime
First, download Fam from the Apple App Store. Once it’s downloaded, a small icon should show up alongside the rest of your iMessage apps.
When you open the app, it’ll take up the keyboard area. Here you will see a button that reads “Create Group Video.” When this button is pressed, it will send a link to your whole group iMessage. When your group members clink on this link it will start a group chat with you and your friends.
Please note, your chat buddies will also have to have Fam for this to work. But don’t worry, once they click the link they will be prompted to download the app if it’s not already downloaded on their phone.
You can expand the video so it takes up the full screen if you’d like. Either way, the video chat will be within the iMessage app instead of a separate app, which is convenient because it means one less app is draining your battery.
Features of Fam
The App Store describes Fam as the “first-ever live group video app built inside iMessage.”
“With just a couple of taps from your iMessage keyboard, Fam turns any iMessage group chat (or one-on-one conversation) into a group video chat party, where an unlimited number of friends can be online at once. In the Fam home screen app, you can see your group video chat call history in one neat, organised view.”
In 2016, Venture Beast named Fam as one of the top 10 best iMessage apps of the year. In fact, more than 406 users have given Fam a four-star rating.
Definitely worth a try, in our books.
Via First for Women
