Facetime help needed.

[Easternlight]

Hi I need to be able to face time a friend in a care home as I'm not allowed to visit any more due to the curret covid 19 problem.
The problem I have is I know nothing about apple as all my stuff is andriod, What is my best option, cheap Ipad, or Iphone 5/c/se/s ?
Do I need a particula level of ios?
I can't use any other option i.e. whats app as I need to be able to group chat with face time, plus I can't get in to the home add anything to her Ipad!

Easty

[Butter Face]

Pretty much any i device. An iPod touch wouldn’t be a bad shout I’d say, or an older iPhone.

[silobass]

Is there not a cross platform app that will do what you need? Does Whatsapp or Facebook chat not have a video option?

[Jaybmw]

Facebook messenger, WhatsApp or Skype etc will work on both iOS and android.. all extremely simple to use. If it's for someone elderly I'd advise WhatsApp.

[toohuge]

An iPhone SE like this will do the job:

https://www.morgancomputers.co.uk/product_detail/2...

[Easternlight]

As i said I need to use face time as thats what she is used to and I want to do group facetime.
Don't really want to spend too much as I won't use it after allthis madness ends.

So an early 1st gen Ipad mini would do even though it's only on ios5?

Easty

[mmm-five]

Minimum specs for FaceTime (one to one calls) is simply an:

• any iOS device (iphone/ipad/ipod)
• with iOS 7 or later installed

For Group FaceTime you'd need a minimum of:

• iPhone 6s
• iPad Pro
• iPad Air 2
• iPad Mini 4
• iPad (5th gen or later)
• iPod Touch (7th gen or later)
• with iOS 12.1.4 / iPad OS installed

Cheapest option for Group FaceTime would be the 32gb 7th Gen iPod Touch (about £160 new on Amazon) - assuming you have access to wifi where you need to use it.

Edited by mmm-five on Sunday 22 March 11:31

[Easternlight]

That's brilliant, that's exactly what I needed to know.
Thanks for taking the time for that.

Easty