Use facetime to call apple, android and windows devices

3. The Apple user will see a message, TIME SENSITIVE FACETIME LINK, on the phone screen when an invitee clicks the link. You’ll see a message about one or more people waiting. Join the call,

click the “waiting” message, then the WHITE CHECK MARK IN A GREEN CIRCLE. Clicking DONE at the top right corner gets the Apple user out of Contacts and into the FaceTime call. 4. Anyone can

leave by tapping the END or LEAVE button. The call won’t cut off until only one person is left. SAVE SOME CASH IF YOUR PLAN HAS A DATA CAP You will hit your mobile plan’s data limit sooner

than you anticipated if you love to show your face on FaceTime and other video chat apps. The amount of data a person starting the call and all the others who are part of it each consumes

can vary widely depending on the number of participants, signal strength, video quality and whether they’re on a 4G or a 5G network. VIDEO IS A DATA HOG, more than audio alone, still photos

and definitely text. Data-usage estimates before 5G started at 60 megabytes (MB) for a 30-minute low-quality FaceTime video call, which you might not have wanted to tolerate for a half hour.

If you have 5G service, a strong signal and a high number of participants on camera, other estimates tilt data usage to more than 2 gigabytes (GB), i.e., 2,000MB, for the same 30-minute

call. That might be almost half the data included in an inexpensive plan from an economical reseller such as a mobile virtual network operator (MVNO). More than 1 in 5 respondents in the

U.S. have a mobile data plan of 5GB or less, according to Statista Consumer Insights’ 2024 survey.  THE SOLUTION? Make sure that you’re hooked up to a strong Wi-Fi network all the time

during a call. Apple users can ensure the app doesn’t skip over to their cell plan if the Wi-Fi has a hiccup by going to SETTINGS ⚙️ | CELLULAR and scrolling past their app list to WI-FI

ASSIST, which will make the switch to mobile data if it senses a poor Wi-Fi signal. Flip the toggle button to gray with the circle to the left; that signifies off. If you don’t _ever_ want

to use FaceTime with your mobile plan, stay on that Cellular page but scroll up to the Apps by Usage section and find FACETIME. Turn its toggle button to gray. The caveat: You’ll be able to

use FaceTime only on Wi-Fi and won’t catch any incoming FaceTime calls if you’re not logged into a Wi-Fi network. You’ll discover you missed an incoming call only when you reconnect to

Wi-Fi.  GO AUDIO ONLY. Or to save more data, you could strip out the video altogether and go with an audio FaceTime call, akin to a regular telephone call but over the internet. It’s an

alternative when you’re running out of data for the month or know only a person’s email address but want to talk instead. _This story, originally published April 23, 2019, was updated to add

new information._ Video: How to Do a Group Skype Call