Get started with SharePlay
Share your music, movies, workouts and more over FaceTime
IT WILL TAKE
> 10 minutes
YOU WILL LEARN
> How to share media and even workouts using FaceTime
YOU’LL NEED
> iOS 15.1, macOS 12.1, Apple Music and/ or Apple TV
When you use the shared listening or viewing features, SharePlay isn’t a streamer, it’s a synchroniser
It’s always better to show somebody something than tell them about it, or to play them a song rather than describe it. And with Apple’s SharePlay, which is now part of FaceTime, you can do just that while you chat. That song you’re raving about? You can play it in full quality for everybody. That funny TikTok? You can share that too.
So far, SharePlay is available on the iPhone, iPad, iPod touch and Apple TV. And, as we go to press, it’s finally become available on Mac too via the 12.1 update to macOS Monterey. Let’s find out what SharePlay can do – and how you can use it.
Share with everyone
SharePlay works in one-to-one and group FaceTime sessions, where it enables you to do three key things. You can use it to share a song and listen to it at the same time as everybody else; you can use it to create a shared TV or movie watching session where everybody is at the same bit at the same time; and you can use it to share your screen in real time, for example to show a photo or something you’ve done in an app.