Facetime Active Call window can't be moved

Me too, but I created a new bug report, it takes 1 minute, just copy this

"After upgrade to the high sierra, the active call window of FaceTime can't me moved by mouse !!"

Hi,

Seems FaceTime does not have a dedicated page Product Feedback - Apple

10:05 pm Monday; October 16, 2017

Same problem here. The "floating" window cannot be moved and the thing vertical audio bars are not animated anymore. There used to be a visual "sound animation" when audio was either received or sent that looked like an audio spectrum meter. Now all the lines are stuck, static at the bottom.

I also have this problem. Is this a "feature?" As you say, it makes it impossible to work. The darn FaceTime audio window is blocking a lot of my page. I only need the audio on in the background while I'm working, not at the fore reminding me that it is there!

Are you sure about that? Why would they make it a notification banner?

By the way, I don't know you guys have noted or if it happens to you but I only get the audio animation (the thin vertical lines showing the sound spectrum) on FaceTime audio calls. When I make phone calls through my iPhone there's no animation at all.

Are you sure about that? Why would they make it a notification banner?

It's from the horse's mouth. I'm as stumped as you are about this change and can but wonder how much thought went into this idea. But hopefully osx_customer's insight - "...they have a lot of complains..." (sic) - is right and the decision will be reversed.

Hi,

If it were an Notification Banner then it could be turned Off.

I tried this yesterday when I did consider it myself after the post above.

It still appears if Notifications is Off.

It also does not have any other of the Notification attributes.

It is in the one place where iChat used to put the Audio Chat (although that was moveable afterwards).

What iChat also did was even though you may have dismissed an earlier Audio Chat was the next window would be just lower then the first when it appear (like opening multiple documents).

I am not sure what to check next though

9:18 pm Wednesday; November 15, 2017

Hi,

I Did call from my iPhone.

8:23 pm Thursday; November 16, 2017

I Did call from my iPhone.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Works for me (i.e. no banner shows, when I set banners to "none" - but naturally I can't answer a call that way and don't even know when someone calls, apart from the iPhone ringing).

Can you disable other notification banners?

I always and only speak for myself - i am not a public attorney 🙂

"I did, long ago with 10.13.0 and did get an answer, which I conveyed here."

- and you hope posting here technical details known and changed with knowledge will make a difference?

Hard to call it an "enhancement" - I purchased a mac and payed for the whole package, facetime included.

Someone decided to remove a feature I payed for, without notification.

Good thing that we get notifications about new Emoji's... like we are all kids or something.

If you are talking about "bugreport.apple.com", then the "classification" should be a "suggestion", but I'd hope it will also be treated as such, if you've already reported it as a bug.

"Suggestion" is also called "enhancement" in other feedback interfaces.

> option/clicking the notification icon in the top right corner of your screen opens and closes the audio banner

Could you describe how you got this to work? I'm on 10.13.2 (latest MacOS update from a few days ago), and tried the following:

1. Open FaceTime

2. Make a call - I used this number for testing: 8662102157

3. Option click on the notifications (saw it toggle between black/gray)

4. Tried opening notifications, scrolling up on the "Today" view and choosing "do not disturb"

Nothing seems to get rid of that pesky audio banner for me. Perhaps I'm doing it a little differently to you guys?

Hey, uh Redarm, yeah actually, for what people pay for Apple devices, yeah they should fix it

Newsflash for you buddy, and many will agree, you're not helping the problem here, you're just a part of it offering your crass one time jokes and anecdotes if you're not offering a solution

It irritates me these moderators offering their sarcasm, look at big picture, we're here in these forums to resolve a problem, get it fixed, and move on with our lives, not spend all day on the Apple merry-go-round of fixing issues that keep coming up and your wasted messages and lack of support don't help the matter

Offer help and support to myself and everyone else here, or remove yourself and find something better else to do rather than complicating mine and everyone else's quest to find a solution to whatever issue presented

My friend, I'm not concerned with his points, that's irrelevant, he could have twice as many and it still doesn't apply to this conversation or topic.

I have to disagree with you on the info as well my friend, on the contrary, the info they've given hasn't been clear, in fact Apple hasn't resolved the issue.

Moderators, hosts, whatever, title doesn't mean anything nor is title any indication or correlation to one's intelligence, diligence, or aptitude, whether in this forum our a persons professional occupation, that's the big misconception people most people seemingly have.

I understand what you're saying about the issue is the way Apple coded it, however, the purpose of this entire forum even outside this topic isn't to state and repeat what the issue is, the purpose is to fix the issue, those are two different things. Most of us don't care about redundantly discussing what the issue is, we already know it's an issue, why else would we be here? We care about the solution, see the difference?

We can go around and around arguing what the problem is, but how does just repeating what the problem is resolve it? It doesn't...

I propose the purpose of my post is for people to interact and offer any workarounds or encourage them to open cases regarding this matter because I'm not the only one that's frustrated with these "forced" features.

Has anyone figured anything out? Such as safe mode or o Not Disturb potentially removing the Facetime taskbar at the top right when engaged in a call?

And no disrespect my friend, waiting until an issue is widespread or has been escalated enough before you should fix anything, rather than do a little more quality control and for the engineers to do their job properly and not miss little things for a company that's as massive as Apple? That's like if you owned a car company, sold cars, and didn't wait to fix the cars you sold knowing there was a manufacturer defect but you don't do anything about it until enough people complained to you about it... How about proactivity? Or what I'd more accurately describe it, responsibility...

That's just poor business, negligent customer service, and poor quality control, and certainly something we'd both agree on Apple doesn't hold their name too and only wants to be known as the best...

They really need to step things up, Apple products only seem to be increasing in problems over the last several years...