How To Make Facetime Full Screen On iPhone

Face timing is a pretty awesome way to keep in touch with family and friends. It’s no surprise that people rate it way higher than they do texting. At the same time, we usually have our own preferences on how we want our Facetime screen to look like. 

Some people want their facetime to fill up their screen and not just be limited to a part of the screen. Facetiming with a small part of the screen makes it look a bit off to them. When it’s full screen you get a better view of who you’re facetiming with and it makes the whole experience much better. How exactly do you make facetime full screen on your iPhone?

 

CAN YOU MAKE FACETIME FULL SCREEN ON IPHONE?

The short answer is yes. You can absolutely change the settings on your facetime to full screen on your iPhone and you can do this by working your way through the settings of the facetime app on your iPhone. 

With the new features that are always being added to the facetime app. It makes it a bit hard to find your way through and find the feature that lets you enjoy facetime with the full screen of your iPhone.

You don’t have to worry about that though, this article will help you with the steps you can take to make your facetime full screen, keep on reading.

HOW TO MAKE FACETIME FULL SCREEN ON IPHONE

Like we said earlier, it’s entirely possible to make facetime full screen on iPhone. There could be lots of reasons why you might want this, it doesn’t matter what it is as long as you need your facetime to display on the full width of your screen, you just have to follow the detailed steps below and you’ll be able to do just that. Let’s dive in:

1. Open the facetime app on your iPhone.
2. At the bottom right of the screen you’ll see the settings icon. Tap on it.
3. On the next screen, tap on the option “Video calling”.
4. You will see an option for full screen, tap on it to turn it on.

That’s just about it. Your facetime should appear in full screen of your iPhone by now, you can give it a test by calling a friend or someone you can test it on.

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HOW DO I MAKE MYSELF LOOK BIGGER ON FACETIME?

You can’t actually make yourself look bigger on facetime, there’s absolutely no feature available for that but there is one thing you can try. You can try to zoom on your camera to make yourself appear bigger and much more full.

It doesn’t matter if you’re using the rear or front camera, the only way you can make yourself or anything else appear bigger on facetime is to zoom in. To do this, all you have to do is pinch the screen of your phone.

You can also try to make yourself look bigger by adjusting the arrows you find at the top right corner of your own facetime box where you see yourself.

If you pull the arrows outwards, it increases the size of your video box and you can set it to whatever size feels good to you.

WHY IS FACETIME HALF SCREEN ON MY IPHONE?

The facetime app has a lot of features it comes with. One of these features is the landscape mode which uses about half the screen.

If you want to be able facetime with your full screen then you will have to toggle off the landscape mode from the facetime app. If you have more idea about how you can do this, follow the steps below:

1. Open the facetime app on your iPhone.
2. Sign into the app with your apple ID if you have not done so.
3. On the top left of the app, you will see the settings icon. Tap on it.
4. Scroll down until you see landscape mode. Tap on it to toggle it off.

You can now go back to your facetime app to check if the settings you had just made have worked. You should be able to facetime with the full screen of your iPhone by now.

CHANGING FACETIME TO FULL SCREEN STILL ISN’T WORKING, WHAT DO I DO?

There could be lots of reasons why you can’t change facetime to fit your whole screen. Before anything else, you need to make sure that the facetime app is active on your iPhone. To do this, open the settings app on your iPhone > Facetime > Toggle it on.

While trying to set your facetime to full screen, make sure that you have a strong internet connection on your iPhone. Make sure you turn on your data as you set facetime to full screen, this might work.

If the above steps don’t work, it might be a result of a bug. Restart your iPhone and try again.

 

Conclusion

With the above tips you should be able to set facetime on your iPhone to be full screen. If you are having a hard time doing this, it could be that your facetime screen is probably set to other viewing modes like landscape or portrait.

You have to toggle off most of these modes so you can view facetime with the full width of your phone. While it is nice to facetime using the full screen of your phone, other viewing modes also hold their own kind of advantage.

Take for example the portrait mode, you can blur your background to make the focus of the video to be entirely on your face. With the landscape mode, you can tilt your phone to the side and have a wide view of who you’re facetiming with. 

Even with these features, a lot of people still prefer to have a normal facetime feature where it fills their whole screen. It doesn’t really matter. Hopefully we’ve guided and provided you with enough answers on how you can use facetime with your full screen.