How to use Portrait Mode on FaceTime and blur your background

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(Pocket-lint) - A fig of other features arrived for Apple's FaceTime with the latest bundle physique - iOS 15 and iPadOS 15 - including Portrait Mode for FaceTime connected iPhone and iPad.

Portrait Mode allows you to blur retired your inheritance erstwhile connected a FaceTime call, arsenic you tin with different video calling apps similar Zoom and Skype. 

Here is what you request to bash to get a small spot of privateness connected your FaceTime video calls. 

How to blur your inheritance connected a FaceTime call

Whether you privation to fell the washing down you, the upland of ironing, oregon you conscionable don't privation your brag oregon friends to spot you're really inactive successful bed, Portrait Mode connected FaceTime is present to assistance you.

To alteration Portrait Mode successful a FaceTime telephone and blur your inheritance connected an iPhone oregon iPad, travel the steps below: 

  1. Ensure your iPhone oregon iPad is moving iOS 15 oregon iPadOS 15
  2. Open the FaceTime app connected your iPhone oregon iPad
  3. Select a interaction from your caller FaceTimes oregon prime 'New FaceTime' astatine the apical and take the contact
  4. As the FaceTime telephone is connecting, you'll spot an icon astatine the bottommost of the show that has a idiosyncratic wrong a rectangular container - this is the Portrait Mode icon
  5. Tap this icon to crook Portrait Mode connected and blur your background. Note: It is connected erstwhile the icon is white. 
  6. To crook Portrait Mode off, conscionable pat the icon again

If you're already connected a FaceTime telephone and you privation to blur the background, pat connected your thumbnail successful the bottommost close corner. The Portrait Mode icon volition look successful a popular up, among immoderate different options. Tap it to blur your inheritance during a call.

What iPhones and iPads volition Portrait Mode connected FaceTime enactment with?

Portrait Mode connected FaceTime volition enactment with immoderate iPhone oregon iPad moving the A12 Bionic spot oregon newer. 

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That means you'll request an iPhone XS oregon newer. For iPads, you'll request the iPad mini (fifth procreation oregon later), iPad Air (third procreation oregon later), iPad (eighth procreation of later) oregon immoderate iPad Pro model. 

Want to cognize more?

If you're wondering what different features you tin bash with FaceTime with iOS 15 iPadOS 15, you tin head to our abstracted feature wherever we person a rundown.

Writing by Britta O'Boyle. Originally published connected 22 September 2021.

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