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With the iOS 15.1 update that launched in late October, Apple added SharePlay, a feature that’s designed to let you do more over FaceTime. Using SharePlay, you can watch movies, listen to music, and use apps with friends and family, and we thought we’d give it a try to see how it works.
The first step with any SharePlay experience is to start FaceTime. You can use SharePlay with one person or with multiple people, but everyone needs to have a device running iOS 15.1. SharePlay is also coming to the Mac in macOS Monterey 12.1, but the update is still in beta at this time.
In a FaceTime call, just swipe out of the FaceTime interface and open any app that supports SharePlay, like Apple Music or Apple TV. From there, select a song or a TV show/movie to share with others, and you’ll see a prompt to initiate the SharePlay experience.
Each person on the FaceTime call will also see a prompt to join SharePlay, and once all parties have agreed, content is synced between everyone on the call. With apps that include media, such as Apple TV, participants have control over media playback so anyone can play or pause the content, with everyone seeing the action.
Volume and closed captioning are controlled individually, and SharePlay is designed to lower the volume of what’s playing when someone speaks so you don’t miss any commentary. With apps like Apple Music, everyone can change the song that’s playing or add something to the queue.
It’s worth noting that whichever content that’s being SharePlayed, each person needs to have access. With Apple TV, for example, users need to be subsc
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