FaceTime Could Eventually Hide Your Background During A Call

When you FaceTime with someone, whatever’s going on in the background can usually be seen as FaceTime basically uses your front-facing camera, so whatever the camera sees will be shown to the other person. This is unless you purposely position yourself with a neutral-looking background.

However it seems that Apple could have something in the works that could help hide your background. This is according to a recently discovered patent in which it details a system where FaceTime could help hide the background of users, so if you wanted a less distracting background or just wanted to prevent the other person from seeing how messy your room is, this could take care of it.

However there’s no telling if Apple ever has plans to implement this patent and make it a feature of FaceTime. It does sound like it could be useful but whether or not it is necessary is unclear. Apple hasn’t really made many changes to FaceTime over the years, at least until iOS 12 where during WWDC 2018, Apple finally announced that FaceTime would gain group support for up to 32 users at once.

In any case what do you guys think of this patent? Is this a feature that you’d like to see come to FaceTime in the future?

Tyler Lee
Categories: Apple, Cellphones
Tags: iOS, Patent