FaceTime

iOS calling app

FaceTime is Apple's video-calling application, allowing iPhone, iPad, and Mac users to make video or audio calls over the internet.

The trademark has become a generic verb for video calling on any platform: Let's FaceTime later, She FaceTime'd her parents from college.

The brand name emerged from the older term for in-person interaction. (Lowercase facetime is face-to-face interaction.)

Apple

iPhone

Apple mobile device

  • iPadApple's tablet device
  • MacApple's computer line
  • iOSMobile operating system

iMessage · Siri · MacBook · macOS

personal

family

Related people together

goodbye · hello · birthday · holidays · homesick · check-in · togetherness · intimacy · bonding · smiles

videocalling

video

Recorded moving imagery

ring · answer · hangup · mute · unmute · notifications · ringtone · voicemail · callback · conversation

connection

cellular

Composed of small units

  • 4GFourth-generation mobile technology
  • 5GCurrent mobile network standard
  • bandwidthData transmission capacity

latency · internet · signal · connectivity · streaming · lag · buffering · reconnect · data · hotspot

Categories
Opposites
communication modality

FaceTimetext message

Brief electronic communication

email · voicemail · letter · snail mail · telegram

physical presence

FaceTimeface-to-face

Direct personal encounter

physical presence · in the flesh · being there

platform ecosystem

FaceTimeZoom

Video call platform

Skype · Google Meet · Microsoft Teams · WebEx · Discord

Family

facetimed, facetimes, facetiming

Familiarity
Top 100,000
Profile
Known to kids · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G