Why FaceTime is not working in UAE

My experience with an iPhone 7 bought from Dubai: I unsealed and activated it with a sim in Romania, and there was no FaceTime. After researching online, I tried different sim cards. With some (Kuwait and Jordan), the FT icon appears on the home screen and I can use it to make video calls. With European sim cards (Romania, UK, Germany), the FT icon disappears the moment I put the sim in.

If the model # has AE or AB or possibly AH in front of the slash, FaceTime will not be available in KSA, UAE, or countries outside of the Middle East. SIM cards from certain (not all) Middle Eastern wireless providers will enable FaceTime, but only for those cellular carriers and in the appropriate countries. FaceTime cannot be added if iPhone/iPad is no longer in the restricted area.

Sorry, typical censorship in middle east. Paranoia i'm afraid. Use Skype instead.

it's really strange, i have an iPhone 7 bought from USA with working Facetime, but recently bought a MacBook also from USA with build in Facetime but i wasn't able to activate it on my MacBook show this message "an error occurred during activation. please try again".

already i used VPN and tried to activate it but same still not working eveb i change the DNS without any result.

Reports in this and other fora are that various Middle Eastern governments

are actively blocking the connections used by VPN programs and have

enlisted the wireless providers and ISPs in these countries to assist in blocking

such workarounds.

Several have complained that what used to work no longer does. The situation

is controlled by the sovereign nations/governments; this is not a problem

caused by Apple nor can the matter be resolved by Apple.

Since the iPhones in UAE are somewhat changed so that facetime cannot be used, when you travel to USA persay, can the facetime app be downloaded onto this phone and THEN used in the USA as per normal iphone use? Appart from video chats not allowed in UAE can the this Facetime option be used elsewhere in another countyr knowing that the phone was purchased in UAE?

No, you will not be able to download FaceTime to an iPhone

meant for sale in the Middle East if the iPhone is no longer in

the restricted area. Use Skype or similar app instead.

Yes i agree with Kyounis. i bought my iphone 6 from UAE, ABU DHABI and when i inserted my Pakistan Sim facetime started working. yes u need to go in settings and need to look for facetime. Kyounis i am great full to you cus i was not aware of DU network i always though that facetime in UAE doesn't work there, but now i will try on DU network.

u don't have to download facetime as its already builtin in it. when you are going to insert USA Sim u just have to go in settings and u will find it there. this is all fake news that u need to download Facetime in it.

But my problem is with MacBook, my iPhone FaceTime is working fine without any problems, I can't activate my MacBook FaceTime

But my problem is with MacBook, my iPhone FaceTime is working fine without any problems, I can't activate my MacBook FaceTime That's the problem

But my problem is with MacBook, my iPhone FaceTime is working fine without any problems, I can't activate my MacBook FaceTime, I activated my iPhone on USA SIM card and it's working fine, just I need to activate the FaceTime in my new MacBook

Since that is a totally different problem, you really should start your own thread where you can provide the full details of your problem and what you have attempted to do to resolve it.

Yes, I agree with you, that's what was happening when I had iPhone 6, when I travel to any country the FaceTime appear by it self and start working normal

I want a iPhone 7 what I do tell me what you need