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Aug 5, 2012 2:17 PM in response to Mollie92by Meg St._Clair,Let's see the entire screen shot with the carrier information across the top and the icons along the bottom. Better yet, take a picture of the phone.
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Sep 15, 2012 5:21 AM in response to SFM1972by Elmolar,I have the same problem! And THERE WAS A FACETIME ICON BEFORE ON THE iPHONE. I don't know how it dissapeared.
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Sep 15, 2012 5:35 AM in response to Elmolarby Meg St._Clair,I think the confusion may arrise if you set up the phone from an iPod back up. I suspect, in that case, the icon may momentarily appear on the screen. However, it has never been possible to use FaceTime from an icon on the iPhone. Not having an icon is the way it's supposed to be.
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Sep 15, 2012 5:58 AM in response to SFM1972by SilverBullet3G,Do you think perhaps, that if you did have the FT app on the iphone, that maybe when an update to itunes or ios occurred, that it removed it at that time, do you think that could have happened?
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Sep 15, 2012 6:23 AM in response to SilverBullet3Gby Meg St._Clair,No. I know there never was a functional FaceTime icon on the iPhone.
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Sep 15, 2012 8:05 AM in response to Meg St._Clairby Elmolar,Well, all I know is that the icon was on my iPhone for a long time. It did disappeared after I tried to use it to call my son.
Now I know I have to go to contacts to be able to use it. Thank you for the info.
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Sep 20, 2012 4:28 AM in response to SFM1972by RaMam123,My guess: the Facetime icon doesn't exist on Iphone since IOS5.
For recent Iphone (4GS), there was no icon, and those who has IOS4 (Iphone4), the icon was there, and after the upgrade to IOS5, the icon was removed because it is useless, using Contact is enough.
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Jan 24, 2013 8:46 AM in response to RaMam123by kelleyaynn,Though this is old, I can vouch that there WAS an icon on his iphone for FaceTime. I had one too and deleted it on purpose. Since then I've decided I want it back, which is how I found this thread.
Resetting my home screen to factory defaults did not work.
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Jan 24, 2013 8:56 AM in response to kelleyaynnby rockmyplimsoul,The only way that's possible (and it's not a proven fact) is if you loaded an iPod Touch or iPad backup onto your iPhone at one point. That may have put the FT icon on the screen. Your statement that you deleted the icon gives further evidence that it was not real (or at least not functional) because Apple's native app icons cannot be deleted.
Your iPhone is working as it should all along, with FT only as part of Contacts.
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Apr 20, 2013 5:47 AM in response to SFM1972by gitesh malik,Guys, I bought Iphone 5 couple of months back and had the same issue. I dont know how but the facetime icon got deleted from the home screen - till date i have been holding by 2 year kid responsible! but reading the threads I hear of similar cases with some mentioning the icon getting deleted w/o a trace!
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Apr 29, 2013 10:33 AM in response to gitesh malikby Thom_D,I have an iPhone 4S that I bought the day they were made available from AT&T. It came with a version of iOS 4, don't remember exactly which version it was because I am currently up to iOS 6.1.2 and didn't track what it originally came with. I bought my wife a 4S at the same time. When we got the phones, they both had the facetime icon on the home screen. We played with it a couple times and didn't think much about it.
One of the early iOS 5.X updates deleted the icon because Apple felt it was easier to just make a Facetime call directly from the contact page for the person you wanted to Facetime with. This is just my personal opinion but I agree with them. It saved a few taps.
Yes there was a Facetime icon. Yes it was deleted by an iOS update.
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Apr 29, 2013 10:46 AM in response to Thom_Dby rockmyplimsoul,Thom_D wrote:
I have an iPhone 4S that I bought the day they were made available from AT&T. It came with a version of iOS 4, don't remember exactly which version it was because I am currently up to iOS 6.1.2 and didn't track what it originally came with.
Mysterious icons aside, your iPhone 4S came with iOS 5 (not 4.x). The 4S came out on Oct 14, 2011 at the same time of the iOS 5 release, and no 4S was ever shipped with iOS 4.
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Apr 29, 2013 10:54 AM in response to Thom_Dby KiltedTim,Thom_D wrote:
One of the early iOS 5.X updates deleted the icon because Apple felt it was easier to just make a Facetime call directly from the contact page for the person you wanted to Facetime with. This is just my personal opinion but I agree with them. It saved a few taps.
Yes there was a Facetime icon. Yes it was deleted by an iOS update.
Your "personal opinion is that there was actually a facetime icon on the phone, or that Apple was right to delete it?
Either way, your "personal opinion" is wrong.
Apple did not delete it because it never existed.
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Apr 29, 2013 11:02 AM in response to rockmyplimsoulby Thom_D,Mysterious icons aside, your iPhone 4S came with iOS 5 (not 4.x). The 4S came out on Oct 14, 2011 at the same time of the iOS 5 release, and no 4S was ever shipped with iOS 4.
OK my contract with AT&T was for 2 years and expires on May 7th 2013. I have had my phone since early May of 2011. I will cop to it possibly having iOS 5 installed. I do however remember having a Facetime icon on my home screen when I got my phone.