Tip 7Auto-answer FaceTime Calls

Here’s a neat tip that enables the FaceTime app to automatically answer incoming calls from contacts you specify. You can use it if you’re happy having calls from specified colleagues, friends, or family automatically answered, although be careful because there’ll be nothing stopping these incoming callers from instantly seeing what’s happening in front of your computer!

Enabling Auto-answer on FaceTime

Here are the steps required to enable automatic answering of calls on FaceTime:

  1. Start by opening FaceTime if it isn’t already open, and log in. Then look for the contact details of the individual(s) you’d like to enable auto-answering for. This will be listed in your Contacts or Favorites list and will probably ...

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