Share Stuff

The heart of communicating with other people is sharing: words, pictures, links, audio, video, screens, experiences—what have you. And FaceTime and Messages facilitate this sharing with built-in tools and synchronization with other apps.

In this chapter, I’ll show you how to use four different kinds of sharing offered across and via those two apps:

  • Find everything shared with you in Messages and how to manage those items.

  • Use SharePlay in Messages and with FaceTime to watch and listen to media at the same time with other people, like watching the same movie synchronized to the same point.

  • Allow others to see your location through Messages sharing.

  • Share your screen or view someone else’s via FaceTime and Messages.

  • Collaborate with ...

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