iOS 14.2 update quietly added 1080p FaceTime support for iPhone 8 and newer

03 December 2020
The iPhone 12 series supported this out of the box, but now older models (going back to 2017) can enjoy higher resolution video calls too.

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Anonymous, 04 Dec 2020And still on Android 8 or 9 even on android 7 it can even d... moreFor the most part, we had to use a third party app to even screen record.

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    Anonymous, 03 Dec 2020And what about your android phone that still stuck at andro... morestill android 9 phone will have better video calling quality than yours old iphone. Oh you still at iphone 8 not 12?

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      • vGd
      • 05 Dec 2020

      Apple could have done this in 2017 but doing now. This company always makes a fool of its users. Slowing down earlier phones and forcing customers to upgrade. Whereas companies like Oneplus make their 3-year-old phones faster with updates

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        • 04 Dec 2020

        It's not that like to be reminded of iPhone 8 8plus all together some of the iPhone it's new update and clear high quality video calls

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          • 04 Dec 2020

          [deleted post]Pretty much in the same boat as you then

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            • 04 Dec 2020

            Anonymous, 03 Dec 2020Even Android 2.3 has more features than current iOS 14. An... moreOh for the love of....!!!!!

            Can’t one of these bleeding articles go without having its comments section degrade into that pointless old android vs iOS nonsense.

            What in the the hell does Apple upping the face time res have to do with Android????

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              • 04 Dec 2020

              Anonymous, 04 Dec 2020And still on Android 8 or 9 even on android 7 it can even d... moreAndroid developers can’t even developed apps and games that suit new aspect ratio of android phones 20:9, there’s no even proper tablets OS or apps, software and hardware Fragmentation, all features that adds by OEM’s like onscreen fingerprint scanner, 8k,4K@60fps etc.. doesn’t even implemented by android OS just half packed features, yeah Apple might introduce those features later, but works better than android due to the right OS implantation since Apple own IOS unlike Android that own by google.

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                • 04 Dec 2020

                Anonymous, 03 Dec 2020Even Android 2.3 has more features than current iOS 14. An... moreAndroid 2.3 what a joke lol. Most of android features are copied from Apple accept the gimmicks features.

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                  • 04 Dec 2020

                  And still on Android 8 or 9 even on android 7 it can even do 1080p face calling

                  Good to know ios is 6 big updates behind minimum

                  Like people say Android 11 is like IOS 17 or IOS 18 Apple users need 5 years of updates to even catch up to Android features like IOS 14 and their features proved

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                    Anonymous, 03 Dec 2020Even Android 2.3 has more features than current iOS 14. An... moreCan you even be a bigger Android fanboy? :rolleyes:

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                      • 04 Dec 2020

                      As per the Apple site, all the phones with 7mp got the 1080p facetime update. Any phones with lower than 7mp are still at 720p. Which makes the details as , the iphone 7 and later got the 1080p facetime update and not just iphone8 and later. Please make corrections to article

                        AnonD-804996, 03 Dec 2020Because you totally need 4K on a shitty 5 inch display...It's not the screen, it's the resolution, 1080p streaming from FaceTime will look much shaper than 720p with poor detail levels.

                        FaceTime is also used on other Apple devices.
                        Your limited 720p in FaceTime would look terrible when viewed on an iPad Pro (for example) on the other end.

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                          • 03 Dec 2020

                          Anonymous, 03 Dec 2020And what about your android phone that still stuck at andro... moreEven Android 2.3 has more features than current iOS 14.
                          Android 9 still wipes the floor.

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                            • 03 Dec 2020

                            Anonymous, 03 Dec 2020Lol poor iPhone users were video calling uptil now in 720p ... moreAnd what about your android phone that still stuck at android 9 lol.

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                              Anonymous, 03 Dec 2020He didnt even mention 4k LOL apart from you. He is refer... moreYou may want to look up word "exaggeration" in a dictionary. What's with all of you reading everything literally?! Jesus.

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                                AnonD-804996, 03 Dec 2020Because you totally need 4K on a shitty 5 inch display...He didnt even mention 4k LOL apart from you.

                                He is referring to them using 720p until now that they finally got 1080p which is needed on devices 5.5 inches or above.

                                Dont jump the gun lol

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                                  AnonD-804996, 03 Dec 2020Because you totally need 4K on a shitty 5 inch display...Oh that's why apple put 800+p display but let their blind customers use fake 1080p on youtube? Wow So iNnOvAtIvE!

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                                    Anonymous, 03 Dec 2020Lol poor iPhone users were video calling uptil now in 720p ... moreBecause you totally need 4K on a shitty 5 inch display...

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                                      • 03 Dec 2020

                                      Great!! Now they Need to fix it on the macbooks...for f... sake it still look like a Video conference from 2004

                                        Anonymous, 03 Dec 2020Iphone's 720p is Android's 1440pNice joke lmao