Group FaceTime calling removed from latest iOS 12 Mojave betas, will return “later this fall”
Group FaceTime video calling, one of the tentpole features of iOS 12 and macOS Mojave 10.14, has been removed without explanation from the latest betas that got released for developer testing earlier today. But don’t you worry, it’s a temporary removal.
It’s not like this was entirely unexpected.
“Group FaceTime has been removed from the initial release of iOS 12 and will ship in a future software update later this fall,” according to release notes accompanying the iOS 12 beta 7 download. The same message accompanying the changelog for the latest Mojave beta.
The “later this fall” might indicate that iOS 12 may not ship with group FaceTime at launch.
With FaceTime on iOS 12 and Mojave, customers can participate in a video or audio conversation with up to 32 people at once. The implementation of group video calling is pretty cool, with the tile of the person speaking automatically getting larger to indicate to everyone who’s currently talking.
We here at iDownloadBlog have been trying to use group FaceTime calling amongst ourselves a bunch of times. As optimistic as we were, the experience left a lot to be desired, no matter how hard we were trying. It soon became clear to us that group FaceTime calling, in its current form, just isn’t ready for prime time.
Apple was wise to pull the code out of the latest betas.
We’d rather have them release group FaceTime calling when it’s passed quality testing rather than have it rushed out and risk spending another year patching bugs.
How about you?
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