Facetime After IOS 6 Upgrade

Wi fi or cellular .

If you bought your iPhone in certain parts of the Middle East such as KSA and UAE, FT has been "crippled" on these phones on governmental orders. With these phones, FT will not work anywhere in the world.

Nowhere in the original post do you mention that the phone was purchased in the US. Besides what I told you earlier, carriers in the UAE do not allow FT for the same reason as stated in my previous post. FT is crippled at both a phone (sold in the UAE) and carrier level. Still I cannot explain why you are able to connect to FT friends in Dubai. Perhaps because they have not upgraded to iOS6 yet...

Evidently FT is a serious issue for these Middle Eastenr governments.

MrMurrayIV did you resolve this issue?

I'm having the exact same problem since upgrading to IOS6. I have a UK iPhone 4 and I've been using FaceTime to call my partner and children in the UK (from Dubai) since November 2011 without issues. Since upgrading, FaceTime will not connect internationally but will locally.

Please can someone help as Skype is just a pain in the backside!

Ditto here. Been using Facetime since January to talk to my sister in Dubai (we live in the UK). But since last week's IO6 upgrade, Facetime hasn't worked. Facetime starts, says "connecting" for several minutes, then "Facetime failed".

any ideas?

Again. coorong and PinkDan, it is a carrier issue in Dubai. As well as having the phones sold in UAE crippled for FT, the carrier in UAE does not allow FT.

It actually has nothing to do with iOs6, I bought my dad an iPhone 4 from the UK and sent it to him in UAE, he hasn't upgraded to iOS6 and neither have I on my UK iPad 2. We used to call since last December from Uk to UAE via FaceTime and vice versa. This method worked perfectly. We could call the email address 's as they blocked the method calling by the mobile number. But only for the past 4 days has FaceTime now been completely blocked and just gets stuck on connecting. Still waiting for a solution as it is by far the best way to communicate.

Read this http://www.saudimac.com/2010/10/facetime-in-the-middle-east-the-story-so-far/

Seems the local governments got the local carriers to close that loophole...

I have the exact same problem!! This is an Irish phone and FaceTime worked perfectly from Abu Dhabi to Ireland up until I did the update!! Has anyone spoke to help desk that have a solution to this issue?? Very annoying!!

true, cant use facetime anymore. the last time i used it was 2 days ago. wish i did not upgrade to ios6.

bought my ipad 2 wifi 3g in HK and been using it here in Abu Dhabi for almost a year and i frequently used it to call my friends in the philippines and US and right after the upgrade (ios6) its just says connecting.... and then connection lost! wish i can downgrade but i cant! wish i did not update to ios6! : (

DU user

I'm having exactly the same problem and I'm in Australia. Mac, iPad2 and iPhone 4 problem. Do not receive the calls and only receive notification on the iPhone that someone has tried to contact me on facetime.

All equipment bought in Australia from Apple. Worked fine until the upgrade.

Although not using FT for international calls I am experiencing the same issues within Canada from province to province calling. I also find that the orientation of the screen is messed up at the best of times and I have to constantly keep flipping my iPad and iTouch to not appear upside down. This is definitely an issue since the upgrade to IOS6. These are my only two Apple products and I was always told that these upgrades were so much better then any PC as there are never any issues. I suppose that was just a salesperson lying.

Its not only the problem in dubai,also in germany and switzerland !

but what can i do that i can use it ????