Suddenly FaceTime is unable to connect. FaceTime starts and displays the "Connecting..." message. Within a few seconds the "Connection lost" message appears.

I am having this issue today. I can't facetime anyone today! Could it be an Apple error? Maybe a carrier issue? I tried Facetiming a friend with an iphone 5 and that didn't work, and I also tried facetiming my daughter on her ipod touch 4g and that didnt work... it all just hangs at connecting with both parties. ARG!

I'm having the same problem. Was able to connect about 2 hours ago, now it does the same thing. Says connecting, and nothing

this happened a few weeks ago as well. I don't want to do a restore. You lose things you cannot save (voice mail messages etc)

any ideas? My carrier is AT&T

Suffering the same problem as everyone here and on other posts. Facetime on my iPhone 4 iOS6.1.3 just stopped working this week when I try to connect with another iPhone 4. Connection is fine to an iPhone 4S though.

The solution of cleaning out the data and restoring is unacceptable if the problem affects so many users. It also seems to help some and not others.

Hope Apple gets this solved soon. My iPhone experience is starting to wane.

Located in Apple's home state CA and use ATT as carrier.

http://www.apple.com/support/systemstatus/

Facetime was having issues earlier today. See if it works now.

i have the same facetime issue and tried all solutions suggested here but did not work on my iphone 4s with ios 6.1.3. i have erased and restored all data, still facetime does not work at all. i dont know what to do...anyone finally solved this issue?

Facetime still is not working when trying to connect to another iPhone 4 iOS 6.1.3. Looks like others are still having their issues as well with iPhones and iPads. Very disappointing. Have not choice but to abandon Facetime and use Skype which works fine. Might as well start looking into Androids.

Southern California Wed Aug 7 9 pm, FaceTime working again. It has nothing to do with our phones. It is an Apple issue, according to Apple. Mine worked at 8 am, 9am, not at noon, yes at 9:30 pm Pacific Coast time. Third time in two months this has happened (that I know of, could be more)

again, not a phone issue, an Apple tech issue and they ARE aware of it. don't let anyone say they aren't as Apple is who told me it was an Apple problem

best of luck. Frustrating at best

Same here!! Been like this over two months now. Probably have to wait for ios7 for it to be fixed!

Do we all have anything in common for this to occur?? I'm on Vodafone UK, iphone 4, latest 6.1.3 software and getting 'Connection Lost' when calling or receiving facetime from any apple device. Not willing to start with a fresh factory reset to fix this!

I too am on AT&T in the US running IOS 6.1.3 on an iPhone 4. This problem began for me on June 29th. Maybe it's Apple's way to force us to buy newer iPhones...

Either way this isn't being resolved and have received no support from Apple on this matter. AT&T doesn't want to touch it either.

Backup your phone, then restore it as new. Then test facetime.

I have AT&T on current version and have no issue. And no its not apple way to force you to buy a new phone.

Both iPhones in our house have done full restores, and still hasn't worked since the end of June. I was being sarcastic about Apple forcing us to buy new phones, obviously having a 4 I know it's out of date 🙂

Mine is working just fine now. I'm on iOS 6.1.4 in Toronto on Bell Network.

Did you restore as new or backup?