FaceTime itself, we have to explain not expected, but some info to start on the iPod touch can not hurt – after the new iPods drifting since this week in German households are in our various e-mails with questions about Apple’s new video chat service accrued.
FaceTime can of course only activate and use when the iPod over Wi-Fi is connected to the Internet. When you first start the FaceTime app asks for your Apple ID (which is usually the e-mail address that you have with her you logged into the iTunes store – if you have not yet, you can here directly from the iPod, a new Create Apple ID).
Do not worry: it is not a question that something needs to be paid – you just need a user account for face time, and since Apple offers the same ID. At the same time you can use this address as the one under which one can you “call” by FaceTime. If you want to register a different email address, you can do that in the next step, as can later add other email addresses.
Listen up: Apple sends you an e-mail with a confirmation link to verify the e-mail address. As long as you have not clicked this link, do not be her reach. (Check your spam folder.)
Now your first face-time chat, nothing more stands in your way. The next time the FaceTime app you see your contacts list. From this it selects someone from whom you know that he is a 4 or a new iPhone has iPod touch and tap on the contact page at the bottom of the FaceTime button. Unless the called party is currently located in a Wi-Fi network, “rings” are iPod and off you go. (If the called iPod in the standby mode, it is woken up by the face-time request.)
During the conversation you have the ability to switch between the front and main camera on or off the microphone and the corresponding keys are at the bottom left and right of the screen. The small control window with the camera’s image can be moved with the finger in another corner of the screen. If you want to end the call, you tap on the handset icon at the bottom of the screen.
Possible way, even during a FaceTime chat, to use other apps. Suppressed simply click the Home button and start the desired application. Your caller will then receive a still image with the message “Stopped”, and that until you jump over the green bar at the top of the screen back in the face time chat.