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(Pocket-lint): If you have a decent network of friends and family who use iPhones, FaceTime can be a brilliant way to catch up on them without having to hang out with relatively more complicated folks like Zoom.
However, on a bunch of older iPhones – that is, models that were only released a few years ago – it was limited to 720p video recording, which could result in slightly blurry and muddy images in the wrong lighting.
Apple seems to have decided to fix that, however, with the release of iOS 14.2 recently. Although it didn’t say anything about this in the release notes to download the update, The Verge team has found that the product comparison pages for a bunch of recent iPhones have been updated to reflect the new FaceTime experience.
What phones have made the leap? It appears to be all iPhones 8, X, XR, XS, SE, and 11, including the Max and Pro versions where applicable. That’s a pretty wide range of phones to get the update, aligning the last few years of releases with what all 12 can offer.
Of course, it’s unlikely that it changed other facets of the FaceTime experience and might even have made the app’s main downside worse: its propensity to absolutely evaporate battery reserves.
The change also applies to Wi-Fi calling with FaceTime: if you make a call using a cell phone, you may not get the same fidelity. This is a solid little change though, improving the value of some phones already released, so upgrade to iOS 14.2 if you haven’t taken advantage of it yet.
Written by Max Freeman-Mills.
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