Mac Mini Continuity Camera Not Working

Mac Mini M4, bought May 2025. Sequioa 15.5

iPhone 14 Pro Max. IOS 18.5

So, I hoped to be able to use the new Mini Mac as my Facetime computer. But it didn’t seem to recognise my phone as a camera. It said, connect a camera to use Facetime.

This forum showed me more people with the same issue and one found a solution that worked for him.

Assuming you’re on the same wifi and logged in to the same account and restarted the unit.

This way: Connect another webcam to the Mini Mac and then all of a sudden the system realises that you have your phone around and it sees that as a second Camera. For some it worked wired. For me, I had to wire it first with Lightning Cable but could after that just unplug.

This worked, but didn’t work when not using the Logitech Webcam.

I have spoken to 3 Apple Care service people. Eventually we got it to work without any help from other cameras anymore. We tried starting in Safe Mode and then see if it works.

Tips: Reset the mobile data network on the phone. This will sometimes help.

Tips: A VPN active could be an issue. But also, she said, a VPN installed could mess with this and other features.

Tips: Try renaming your phone in your settings. Sometimes that will reconnect it all in the servers and it seems to help.

Tips: I eventually had the phone in portrait mode still on a stand for about 15 minutes before the system started to recognise it every time after sleep or after startup.

Hope that it’s stable now. But we’ll live and learn.

Let me know if you have the same issue and it helped!