{"id":286,"date":"2023-09-25T20:30:38","date_gmt":"2023-09-25T20:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mircea.thewoodenbox.uk\/blog\/?p=286"},"modified":"2023-09-30T17:25:52","modified_gmt":"2023-09-30T17:25:52","slug":"ios-17-how-to-enable-facetime-reactions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mircea.thewoodenbox.uk\/blog\/index.php\/2023\/09\/25\/ios-17-how-to-enable-facetime-reactions\/","title":{"rendered":"iOS 17: How to enable FaceTime Reactions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>So iOS 17 came out recently and one of the more interesting features seems to be the FaceTime Reactions. Those were added as a way to further create interaction on video calls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, there is a big misunderstanding right now in the community. These <strong>FaceTime Reactions only work on iPhone 12<\/strong> and above so no reactions for those below that which is an interesting choice in my opinion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These reactions consist of fireworks when you double thumbs-up, rain when you double thumbs-down, and many more that I will let you discover later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In order to activate these reactions, go to the Action Center whilst on call and press on the green camera shown in this picture.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mircea.thewoodenbox.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2023-09-24-at-13.57.08-1.jpeg?resize=329%2C71&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-291\" style=\"width:329px;height:71px\" width=\"329\" height=\"71\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mircea.thewoodenbox.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2023-09-24-at-13.57.08-1.jpeg?w=946&amp;ssl=1 946w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mircea.thewoodenbox.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2023-09-24-at-13.57.08-1.jpeg?resize=300%2C65&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mircea.thewoodenbox.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2023-09-24-at-13.57.08-1.jpeg?resize=768%2C166&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 329px) 100vw, 329px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Lastly, you will see a button with the label &#8220;Reactions&#8221; on it. If is not white, press it to enable and now you can play around with the reactions.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mircea.thewoodenbox.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2023-09-24-at-14.03.10.jpeg?resize=329%2C304&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-289\" style=\"width:329px;height:304px\" width=\"329\" height=\"304\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mircea.thewoodenbox.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2023-09-24-at-14.03.10.jpeg?w=842&amp;ssl=1 842w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mircea.thewoodenbox.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2023-09-24-at-14.03.10.jpeg?resize=300%2C277&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mircea.thewoodenbox.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2023-09-24-at-14.03.10.jpeg?resize=768%2C710&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 329px) 100vw, 329px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>This is the table provided by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apple.com\/uk\/ios\/ios-17\/\">Apple<\/a> regarding the existing <a href=\"https:\/\/support.apple.com\/en-gb\/guide\/iphone\/iphaa0b5671d\/ios\">gestures<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"620\" height=\"702\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mircea.thewoodenbox.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Screenshot-2023-09-25-at-20.12.18.png?resize=620%2C702&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-287\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mircea.thewoodenbox.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Screenshot-2023-09-25-at-20.12.18.png?resize=905%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 905w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mircea.thewoodenbox.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Screenshot-2023-09-25-at-20.12.18.png?resize=265%2C300&amp;ssl=1 265w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mircea.thewoodenbox.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Screenshot-2023-09-25-at-20.12.18.png?resize=768%2C869&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mircea.thewoodenbox.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Screenshot-2023-09-25-at-20.12.18.png?w=907&amp;ssl=1 907w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So iOS 17 came out recently and one of the more interesting features seems to be the FaceTime Reactions. Those were added as a way to further create interaction on video calls. However, there is a big misunderstanding right now in the community. These FaceTime Reactions only work on iPhone 12 and above so no<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mircea.thewoodenbox.uk\/blog\/index.php\/2023\/09\/25\/ios-17-how-to-enable-facetime-reactions\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;iOS 17: How to enable FaceTime Reactions&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"[]"},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[34,20,32],"class_list":["post-286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","category-tech-announcements","tag-facetime-reactions","tag-ios","tag-ios-17","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mircea.thewoodenbox.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mircea.thewoodenbox.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mircea.thewoodenbox.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mircea.thewoodenbox.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mircea.thewoodenbox.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=286"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mircea.thewoodenbox.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":292,"href":"https:\/\/mircea.thewoodenbox.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286\/revisions\/292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mircea.thewoodenbox.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mircea.thewoodenbox.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mircea.thewoodenbox.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}