TikTok’s For Us page during FaceTime calls

SharePlay, a brand new characteristic in iOS 15 that allows apps to convey person experiences proper into FaceTime, is creatively supported within the video-sharing app TikTok which presents the person with a brand new web page titled “For Us” when utilizing the characteristic throughout a video name.

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TikTok’s SharePlay replace brings a brand new For Us web page

TikTok’s SharePlay implementation features a new For Us web page that seems when the characteristic is used throughout a FaceTime name on iPhone. In the event you use TikTok, you’re conversant in the app’s For You feed which recommends content material that displays your personal preferences and pursuits.

However now, as noticed shared by Aether Aurelia on Twitter, once you activate SharePlay for TikTok throughout a FaceTime video name, the For You web page will get renamed For Us to mirror that the person has switched from a solitary expertise to a shared one.

To check out this characteristic, make certain that your iPhone is working the iOS 15.1 software program or newer. If that’s the case, begin a FaceTime video name with a number of contributors, then go to the house display screen, launch TikTok and hit the SharePlay icon to get began.

The SharePlay-only For Us feed, as its identify suggests, is full of movies which are really helpful to the people who find themselves on the FaceTime name. “It’s primarily a synced web page between the gadgets on the SharePlay session, it additionally appears to combine pursuits,” notes Aurelia.

SharePlay is coming to Spotify and different main apps

To ensure that customers to have the ability to get pleasure from their favourite apps collectively, builders should implement assist for SharePlay utilizing Apple’s official APIs. Many main apps like Spotify are engaged on including SharePlay assist.

Out of the field, SharePlay options are supported in a number of of Apple’s personal apps that come pre-installed on iPhone, together with Music, TV, Podcasts and Health+. With SharePlay-enabled apps that present subscription content material, like Apple’s personal TV app, all contributors should have the subscription to get pleasure from shared content material.

As an illustration, if I begin a SharePlay session to convey the most recent episode of the Apple TV+ sci-fi present Basis right into a FaceTime name, everybody on the decision will have to be subscribed to the Apple TV+ service earlier than having the ability to watch the episode contained in the FaceTime name.

SharePlay can be supported on Macs and Apple TVs.