Unable to access FaceTime after 17.4 update

Apparently you have to download the FaceTime app from the App Store.

I did my 17.whatever update, and decided to do a little cleaning up while I was at it. It turns out I was a little too thorough and deleted my FaceTime App. Ha ha ha... I reinstalled FaceTime, and presto! Even if you didn't delete it, as a attempted fix, you might try reinstalling FaceTime. Good luck!!

Same as all of the comments above. It’s very frustrating to have to have another app just to get a function back that was a part of the call settings. Why and what was the point of this. Apple should have sent out some type of information explaining that it will now be needed if you want to continue using FaceTime. Very disappointed.

This happened to me too, and I have always had the app on iphone and iPad. It keeps asking me to sign in but I am already signed in according to settings. so annoying.

After the latest iPhone update, the FaceTime button under only one of my contacts has disappeared so am not sure what to do as the FaceTime button is there for all my other contacts? I have been reading on hear that I might need to reinstall the FaceTime app but not sure I have to do that to get back FaceTime access to just one contact?

My iPhone 11 Pro Max updated to 17.4. Now my FaceTime on ONE of my contacts is NOT working. It's working on all others except one! WHY! They all have iPhone, so why is it that only one of the contacts FaceTime is grayed out and not working and the others work.

The only way to get it to work is go to Text message and click the camera and ask them to join. When they join, FaceTime will come on. But you have to ask them each time to join and you both have to be on text messages to get hold of them to accept.

What is up with this? This is one of the reason's I DO NOT like to update phone with iPhone updates. Things don't work when it's updated.

How do I fix this so this one contact has FaceTime back?

If you go to apps and type in FaceTime. All you get is FaceTime that you can click on and it's not even an app to download. It takes you to a page you have to either create a link or tap on New FaceTime. You tap on the green New FaceTime and it'll show you contacts to FaceTime. Then it looks like you'll have to go to apps each time to get to FaceTime to even contact them. This is absurd! Why did they break something that wasn't broken!

The annoying part to me is not that I had to reinstall the app to restore access to FaceTime, but that I just spent literally about an hour searching different keywords to figure out what was happening and how to resolve the issue.

I just contacted Apple support. The rep claims I am the first person to call with this issue. She assured me that it would not increase my memory usage if I download it from the cloud. I went ahead and downloaded it and now when I click video, I’m given a choice of FaceTime or Instagram and FaceTime does show up as a separate app on my phone. Not the same as it was prior to the update.

This is the same thing that is happening to me. I have been trying to fix it for hours and nothing works. I’ve deleted th app reinstalled turned my phone on and off. Disconnected my number from FaceTime etc.. nothing is working :(

Me too. I changed my password and now have no text messages coming through. Can send but not receive. Any thoughts?

You have to have the FaceTime app now to make calls. If you deleted you will need to redownload it🤦🏻‍♀️

Same thing happened here. So if I download this app, how much memory usage is it going to add. Come on Apple.

I too have the same issue I can’t FaceTime when I do FaceTime to another iPhone that has been updated to version 17.4.1 it says it’s unavailable. Like what is going on?

I have iPhone and can’t FaceTime since new version was installed. Is apple going to fix this?