At the beginning of last week, after a bug was made public that caused FaceTime calls to be picked up remotely by the caller, the Cupertino-based company decided to completely disable them through their servers, leaving calls and video calls between two parties running exclusively.
When it was made public, Apple assured that it was already working to solve this problem, a problem that just fixed via the release of iOS version 12.1.4, a version that is now available to all users with compatible devices. Once this version corrects that error, Apple's servers have put the group calling service back into operation.
The mother of the young man who detected the FaceTime error contacted Apple several times, but it wasn't until the issue went viral, when the company recognized that it really was a serious security problem, for which it was forced to apologize to users. At this time, as reflected in the image that heads this article, FaceTime video calls do not present any operating problems, so we can now use them normally.
Keep in mind that group video calls They only work on compatible devices, starting with iPhone 6s, that are managed by iOS 12.1.4, so they are deactivated in previous versions, since these continue to present the bug that allows remote calls off-hook.
If you haven't had the opportunity to try them yet, you can see how they work live through the Podcast. Actualidad iPhone and I'm from Mac, a podcast that We broadcast live every Tuesday and we do it through FaceTimeExcept for the last two weeks, when we have been forced to turn to Skype again.
