Continuity Camera on Mac mini

Just wanted to share this since i saw another post where no one found a solution. I’ve got this to work on my mac mini wirelessly. For some reason, it will only work when your iphone is nearby your mac mini, locked, in landscape mode and not moving. The moment it connects as a camera, you can set it any place and angle you want. But initially it has to be close to the mac, locked, straight, landscape and still. Id suggest keep it on tripod is better. Additionally, if you just finished using it and then want to use it again in a different session, you have to unlock the phone and then lock it again and then repeat the steps above.

Mac mini (2023 with M2)

Posted on Jan 28, 2023 12:44 PM

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Posted on Feb 19, 2023 05:18 AM

Hi, this advice did not help me. My MacOS Facetime app does not list my iPhone as a camera at all. But I found another rather silly solution. If I plug in my old Logitech camera in Macmini it starts showing video and iPhone shows up as another possible camera. (!?). So, if I want to use the excellent camera of my iphone as a webcam I have to keep the Logi webcam plugged in. For the time being that is my only solution. I hope some update will fix this.

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Feb 19, 2023 05:18 AM in response to F4fadi1

Hi, this advice did not help me. My MacOS Facetime app does not list my iPhone as a camera at all. But I found another rather silly solution. If I plug in my old Logitech camera in Macmini it starts showing video and iPhone shows up as another possible camera. (!?). So, if I want to use the excellent camera of my iphone as a webcam I have to keep the Logi webcam plugged in. For the time being that is my only solution. I hope some update will fix this.

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