iOS 14.2 Mutely Update 1080p FaceTime Support to iPhone 8 and Newer Models

 Overview

Today things are changing very speedily. Companies are invented innovation day by day. They are focused on launching new things and do modifications to the previous gadgets. From one of these companies, Apple officials also modify the feature of their old iPhone or it may be more appropriate to say that they enhance the features of their old iPhone launched 3 years back.

Innovation of the Mobile phone make the communication comfortable, then the internet came that facilitate the people by reducing the apparent distance digitally. People were then like to do more calls over the internet across the world. Technology evolved itself with new innovations day after day. The Internet now also facilitate the video call across the world. People can watch the expression of other people over the call, where voice calls reduce the communication gap to some extent – the video call almost overcome this gap.

Now the trend of video calls rising very rapidly. Due to the pandemic of Covid-19, people shift their business meetings to video call or conference call. All the educational institutes shift their classes online via video call. With this rising need for video call service with HD quality and excellent sound quality, Apple silently updates the operating system of its old phone to provide ease of functionality with cheap rates. 

 

iOS 14.2 Mutely Update

Keeping in mind the ease of video call quality. iPhone update the iOS 14.2 facetime to 1080p to support iPhone 8, launched in the 2017. According to their blog, the video quality of 1080p on iPhone8, not just enabled on this cell phone but in all handset of this series and newer.

We are calling this modification ‘’Mutely Update’’, as in the public release of additional features or bug fixes about a month ago, they didn’t mention this major upgrade. While it was a big upgrade with many bug fixes and speed changes, the company did not note anywhere that it is also adding support for iPhone 8 and all newer versions for 1080p FaceTime calls. Since iOS 14.2 was released, the modifications to the pages were made within a week. From then on, Apple secretly updated the call standard.

The updates can also be found in the iPhone review tool from Apple, where, relative to older ones, it now lists "FaceTime HD (1080p) over Wi-Fi".  This covers the iPhone 8, iPhone 8 Plus, iPhone X, iPhone XR, iPhone XS, iPhone XS Max, iPhone 11, iPhone 11 Pro, iPhone 11 Pro Max, and the upcoming iPhone SE for 2020.

Iphone12 FaceTime over 5G

In the case of the iPhone 12 series, that's a little different. You will take advantage of the higher data rates to make 1080p FaceTime video calls over the cellular 5G network, as the iPhone 12 quartet comes with 5G support. However, it remains to be seen how good the experience turns out on the iPhone 12 Micro, iPhone 12, iPhone 12 Pro, and the iPhone 12 Pro Max over 5G bandwidth.