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Well, now you can use your TV as your FaceTime computer
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and you can use your phone as your camera if you have an Apple TV 4K
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And I tried this out, it's super slick, man. Like, you can easily turn your camera on and off
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and you can make FaceTime calls. And now you can have the picture
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of the people you're talking with on your TV. And then you just set your phone up somewhere
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somewhere close by, and it uses center stage to zoom in on you, and it works super well, man
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Like, you can move around, it follows you all around. For the first time ever, I'm like
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center stage is actually useful to me. And now you get to have a phone call
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a FaceTime call on your TV, which is what I always wanted. And you still have a great camera
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because even in low light, the iPhone camera creates a beautiful image of you
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And it's one of those features that highlights the magic of Apple
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Like, every once in a while, they pull something off like this, and you're like, dude, only they could do this
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No one else would get this to work. They would tell you that it was a feature, and then you'd go to use it
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and it would be complete garbage. But like, the continuity camera feature
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that's Apple magic, man. Like, the fact that you can use your iPhone camera
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on your MacBook Pro, and now you can use it with your Apple TV
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I mean, I know it's a fanboy thing to say, but I do think it's true. It's like, that's the Apple magic right there
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Like, they're the only ones that are able to get that actually working and have it work reliable
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So if you haven't tried it out, you need to update your iPhone to iOS 17. You also need to update to TV OS 17
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And then you'll have the ability to use your iPhone camera for FaceTime calls on your TV
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Works beautifully well. I'm looking forward, we have book club next week. I'm like, finally
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We're not gonna have to sit there and hold a computer on our laps, and both like, hey, like smooshing together, right
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So we could both be in front of the MacBook Air screen. It's not a good setup
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This is gonna be much better