Apple releases iOS 12.1 iPhone user guide, which mentions Group FaceTime device limitations

Just hours afterwards releasing the iPhone XR, Apple has published the official iPhone user guide for iOS 12.1. Available through the Books app for iOS together with macOS, similar previous software guides, the complimentary teaching manual arrives fifty-fifty earlier iOS 12.1 is released to the public. The guide is every bit good meaning for the secrets it has directly given away. 

First announced inward September, the iOS 12.1 update to a greater extent than oft than non focuses on adding novel features to this year’s handsets, the iPhone XS, iPhone XS Max, together with iPhone XR, including eSIM support, the removal of the so-called “beauty mode,” together with the introduction of real-time Depth Control. The update every bit good includes 70 novel emoji and bug fixes for all iOS 12-compatible devices.

Perhaps most significantly, the iOS 12.1 update every bit good brings Group FaceTime to life.

Initially announced inward June at WWDC every bit business office of iOS 12, Group FaceTime was temporarily delayed this summertime during developer testing. The characteristic allows upwards to 32 FaceTime users to verbalize via video- or audio-chat at the same time.

Unfortunately, the characteristic isn’t for everyone, every bit 9to5Mac was the rootage to discover when reading the iOS 12.1 iPhone user guide.

According to Apple’s guide, Group FaceTime won’t launch inward all regions. Additionally, older devices such every bit the iPhone 5s, iPhone 6, together with iPhone six Plus, aren’t compatible alongside its video calling feature. Instead, those devices tin goal alone brand good calls.

Those 3 models are the oldest iPhones to back upwards iOS 12.

There’s 1 matter that Apple didn’t unwrap on Friday: the iOS 12.1 iPad user guide. That document most sure as shooting won’t live on released until afterwards side yesteryear side Tuesday when Apple’s holds a press consequence that’s likely to reveal novel iPad Pro models together with Macs. For now, Apple Books alone includes the iPad guide for iOS 12.

The official unloosen of iOS 12.1 should move on presently afterwards the Oct. thirty event. The especial “There’s to a greater extent than inward the Making” consequence is beingness held inward Brooklyn, New York together with begins at 10 a.m. EDT. Apple volition alive stream the consequence on its website, through Twitter, together with via the Events app on Apple TV.

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