{"id":3466,"date":"2023-02-16T12:28:03","date_gmt":"2023-02-16T11:28:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.tomayac.com\/2023\/02\/16\/ios-continuity-camera-not-working-in-chrome\/"},"modified":"2023-02-16T12:28:03","modified_gmt":"2023-02-16T11:28:03","slug":"ios-continuity-camera-not-working-in-chrome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomayac.com\/wordpress\/2023\/02\/16\/ios-continuity-camera-not-working-in-chrome\/","title":{"rendered":"iOS Continuity Camera not working in Chrome"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t\t\t<p>I'm a big fan of the macOS\n<a href=\"https:\/\/support.apple.com\/en-us\/HT213244\">Continuity Camera<\/a> feature, which\nlets me use the camera system of my iPhone (11 Pro Max) as a webcam in macOS,\nsince the built-in FaceTime HD camera on my MacBook Pro (13-inch, M1, 2020) is,\nwell, not the greatest.<\/p>\n<p>It used to work just fine everywhere in the past, but at some point it stopped\nworking in Chrome. It would still find the camera in native apps like\nPhotoBooth, FaceTime, etc., but not in the browser. As I'm also a Ventura beta\ntester and always on the latest betas, I blamed a bug there. Turns out, this is\na new-ish privacy feature and working as intended. Redditor\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/user\/bonnerup\/\">bonnerup<\/a> filed feedback (<code>FB11639588<\/code>)\nabout the problem with Apple, and got the following response (<em>sic<\/em>):<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Due to privacy concern with unintended camera selection, browser based video\napps only see the phone when it is in &quot;magic pose&quot; of landscape, screen off,\nlocked, motionless (not handheld), and unobstructed camera. This pose is also\nused to trigger Automatic Camera Selection in supporting applications such as\nFaceTime and Photo Booth.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Since this is not documented anywhere apart from a\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/MacOSBeta\/comments\/y4h6ww\/continuity_camera_in_browsers_response_from_apple\/\">Reddit post<\/a>,\nI thought I'd share it here as well. Once I put my phone in the &quot;magic pose&quot;, it\nworked just fine.<\/p>\n<p>My iPhone model doesn't support all video effects yet, but\n<a href=\"https:\/\/support.apple.com\/en-us\/HT213244#centerstage\">Center Stage<\/a> works and\nis pretty cool. It makes it look like if the camera would move and follow me. I\nalso use\n<a href=\"https:\/\/support.apple.com\/en-us\/HT213244#:~:text=or%20Close%20Window.-,Mic%20modes,-Click%20Control%20Center\">Voice Isolation<\/a>,\nwhich helps in noisy environments.<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/blog.tomayac.com\/images\/continuity-camera.png\" alt=\"iOS Continuity Camera with applied Center Stage video effect and Voice Isolation mic mode.\" \/><\/p>\n\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<img alt=\"Thomas Steiner\" width=\"32\" height=\"32\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.tomayac.com\/feed.php?dl=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.tomayac.com%2F2023%2F02%2F16%2Fios-continuity-camera-not-working-in-chrome%2F&dp=%2F2023%2F02%2F16%2Fios-continuity-camera-not-working-in-chrome%2F&dt=iOS%20Continuity%20Camera%20not%20working%20in%20Chrome\" alt=\"\">\n\t\t\t\t<br\/>This post appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.tomayac.com\/2023\/02\/16\/ios-continuity-camera-not-working-in-chrome\/\">https:\/\/blog.tomayac.com\/2023\/02\/16\/ios-continuity-camera-not-working-in-chrome\/<\/a>.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\tI&#8217;m a big fan of the macOS<br \/>\nContinuity Camera feature, which<br \/>\nlets me use the camera system of my iPhone (11 Pro Max) as a webcam in macOS,<br \/>\nsince the built-in FaceTime HD camera on my MacBook Pro (13-inch, M1, 2020) is,<br \/>\nwell, not the greatest.<br \/>\nIt use&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"intlwemo_wallet_address":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomayac.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomayac.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomayac.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomayac.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomayac.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3466"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomayac.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3467,"href":"https:\/\/tomayac.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3466\/revisions\/3467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomayac.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomayac.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomayac.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}