FaceTime for Mac

I'm having an odd variant of the 'never signing in' issue...

Both my wife and me use the imac at home ... if i signin to facetime using my appleID on my mac login it works fine ..... if i switch to my wife's mac account and use my appleID it just sits at signing in ... if i use her appleID it does the same..

Just seems like its working ok for my mac login but not hers.... dunno what to do

Hello Guys,

I can even start Facetime on my MBP. As soon as I start a box pops up: Internatl FaceTime error occured. There was a problem with FaceTime. You need to quit and open FaceTime again.

I've rebooted, reinstalled it, nothing cahnged....

I'm trying to facetime my friends iPhone 4 but he says theres something wrong with his phone. He says that facetime on the phone is on and it is wifi connected but still it keeps saying 'trying to verify' and it didn't even ask for his apple id or anything....can anyone please help? thanks..!

FaceTime for Mac seems to be working partially on my old MacBook core2duo. However, although I see the iSight picture on the computer screen, when I call iPhone 4s, their screens remain black. Video transfer from iPhone 4 to Mac works, but not vice versa. Voice does work in both directions. Is anyone experiencing the same? Any suggestions? I tried to call 5 different iPhones, the problem must be FaceTime for Mac.

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I just did that using the built-in feedback option in FaceTime.

I have the exact OPPOSET problem. I can make FaceTime calls from my 13" White MacBook, but if I try to place a call TO the MacBook FROM my iPhone 4, I get a pop-up message stating that the account I'm calling is unavailable. NOTHING I've tried resolved the Unavailable issue (IE., Log Out of FaceTime on the MacBook, Close the FaceTime Application, Shutdown the MacBook and Restart it). NONE of these things have ANY affect on being able to make calls TO the MacBook, however calling the same (or diffenent) iPhone 4's FROM the MacBook works fine.
In troubleshooting this I have: WiFi Network is up and operating fine, Mac Mail account on the MacBook is Online and operates fine, checking Sys Prefs everything is working fine.
Bottomline: Calls FROM MacBook to my iPhone 4 or other family members iPhone 4 work fine, but calls TO the MacBook from my iPhone 4 or other family members iPhone 4 ALWAYS result in a message popping up that the MacBook user account (Apple eMail account) is unavailable...
H-E-L-P ! ! !

When I Downloaded, Installed and tested FaceTime for Mac last night, all this worked seemlessly. When I added my wife's eMail and iPhone 4 phone number to FaceTime's Favorites (on my MacBook), that information appeared almost instantly in my Contacts (AddressBook) on my iPhone 4, and when you scroll to the bottom of my wife's address card, it shows a Link to Click to make a FaceTime Call and that Link has the FaceTime Logo (the camera silouette) on it.
Make sure you are Syning your Addressbook to Me.com in System Prefs on your Mac...

I know I am going to sound pretty stupid for one who has been using a Macintosh since 1984, but does the iphone have to be on a WIFI network for Facetime (mac to iphone) to work?

I strongly suspect the answer is yes, but the Apple website does not highlight that fact. Moreover, I have been trying to connect to my iphone which is on the 3G network and while I cannot connect (nor do I even see a way so to do since the iphone gives no indication that there is a call coming in), I do get a notification of a missed call

There's nothing strange about the fact that the Mac doesn't have to be on WiFi and FaceTime working over ethernet as well. The whole point with the iPhone is that Apple's contract partners (read: GSM carriers) don't allow FaceTime over 3G (yet), since it would be a completely free alternative to regular phone calls when using an unlimited data plan and the carriers want to charge for cell minutes. If the iPhone had an ethernet jack, this would work as well.

Hi Horstbert,

Same exact problem here, but on an iPod Touch 4Gen. My MacBook Pro sends a black outgoing feed to the ipod. Both feeds are visible on the Mac and only the outgoing feed is visible on the iPod. Sounds works fine.

I've tried this from two other Macs and it works perfectly.

I also tried it between two Macs and again, my MacBook did not send an outgoing feed.

I have verified everything works properly on the MacBook (as far as hardware) so something is buggy with the beta (and I guess it should be).

Hey,

good to know I'm not alone! I haven't tried Mac to Mac yet, but I think it's interesting that your MBP behaves the same way here as with the iTouch while the other Mac works just fine. So probably there's an issue with specific hardware configurations since the error is reproducible with this specific machine and a server failure is very unlikely. Please send feedback to Apple so this hopefully can be resolved in the next (beta- ?)release.