Explained: What is Continuity Camera, the feature that makes iPhone the webcam on a Mac - Times of India

Webcams person go an integral portion of the laptop experience. MacBook Air and MacBook Pro person been powerful, premium and fashionable laptops. They look great, battalion a punch erstwhile it comes to show and are known for their longevity. Whisper it softly but the webcam hasn’t been a standout diagnostic connected the

Mac

for years now. With

macOS Ventura

— the adjacent large bundle upgrade for Mac —

Apple

wants to alteration that with a alternatively absorbing diagnostic called

Continuity Camera

. macOS Ventura has been rolled retired and present we explicate what is the feature, however the acquisition is of utilizing it and more:

What is Continuity Camera

Simply put, it turns the

iPhone

into a webcam for the Mac. So abruptly from an mean webcam you get 1 of the amended — and alternatively costly — ones.

How does it truly work?

You volition request a camera equine — the 1 we tested was a prototype made by Belkin and is expected to beryllium sold by Apple — that conscionable clips connected the MacBook and works seamlessly. It uses Apple’s MagSafe charging tech, which means the iPhone magnetically gets attached to it. It looks a spot awkward astatine archetypal but amazingly remains glued to the MacBook alternatively safely.

iPhone connected a Mac is good

We utilized the Continuity Camera connected the macOS Ventura beta mentation and it worked truly well. A Mac tin instantly recognise erstwhile an iPhone is adjacent and punctual you if you privation to usage it. The quality betwixt the Mac webcam and utilizing the iPhone arsenic a webcam is striking. Not conscionable that, you get a clump of chill features. Take Desk View, for instance. Using Desk View you tin really amusement what’s happening connected your table/desk successful beforehand of the Mac. A batch of radical — vloggers and video contented creators -- volition find the diagnostic alternatively handy.
You besides get Portrait Mode, Studio Light and Centre Stage — features that marque you look amended and usage the iPhone’s camera efficaciously to marque video calls a acold amended experience. It worked smoothly with FaceTime and is besides compatible with each video calling platforms.

What you should know

The diagnostic is present disposable with macOS Ventura. However, arsenic bully arsenic the diagnostic is, you volition request an iPhone that runs iOS 16. So anyone with iPhone 6s oregon iPhone 7 oregon adjacent first-gen iPhone SE volition not beryllium capable to usage the feature. For Macs also, you volition request a exemplary that is not older than 2016. That’s a pity really arsenic it could person made cleanable consciousness to usage an older iPhone arsenic a webcam for the MacBook.