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FaceTime missing from iPhone 5?

I've heard that the iPhone 5 is supposed to have FaceTime. Mine was just delivered today. I've set it up and noticed that the FaceTime icon simply does not exist. Is there something I am missing? How do I make it appear. I even asked Siri and it said "It doesn't look like you have an app named "FaceTime".

iPhone 5, iOS 6, FaceTime

Posted on Sep 28, 2012 11:14 PM

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Posted on Sep 29, 2012 6:12 AM

FaceTime is not an app on the iPhone. First, go to Settings>FaceTime and make sure that it's turned on and has activated. Then, if you wish to call someone using FaceTime, find their entry in your Contacts and tap on the "FaceTime" button.


Best of luck.

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Dec 26, 2014 4:21 PM in response to IdrisSeabright

YOu are 100% WRONG, i hvave. 5,000 iphone 5 purchased from apple in USA for my corporation all but ONE have a facetime icon onthe mai screen. That unit did as well unti we upgraded fromiOS 7.0.6 i think it was , to iOS 8.1.2 today. This bit of people telling others it is not and never has been an app should be stopped as it is providing false and misleading info to consumers who could Sue for such fraudulent sales of limited devices. And NO! Our phones were not sold to an Arab nation or person,but to a fourty year USAF retired General!

Dec 26, 2014 4:27 PM in response to Nainish

Nainish wrote:


I Have recently purchased iPhone 6 from Dubai, didn't open the box there, I opened the box in Pakistan and inserted the sim but there is no FaceTime appeared.


KIndly guide me how can I get FaceTime in my iPhone 6?


regards,


subhash.

You can't. It has been permanently disabled on that phone because it is banned by law in the country where the phone was sold. It can NOT be added to the phone, regardless of whether you take it out of the original country.

FaceTime missing from iPhone 5?

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