How to know if someone is busy on facetime call
Last Updated on May 26, 2023 by Kennedy
Trying to figure out how to know if someone is busy on facetime call, I will explain all you need to know when it comes to using facetime for your video call and audio call.
Facetime is very much popular especially among those using apple products like the iPhone, iPad, or Mac computer. It is a voip services like whatsapp, but quite different as it is quite difficult to know if someone is on a facetime call.
On Whatsapp, you can easily know if someone someone is on another whatsapp call, so let’s see if that is possible on facetime.
How to know if someone is busy on facetime call
On facetime, it is quite impossible to know if someone is busy as it show user on the other call or indicating if someone is busy on another call.
However, there is a way I usually get to know if someone is busy on facetime call if the recipient declines a call immediately it start to ring.
But you can never tell.
So I will explain the way which I usually think maybe the recipient is on another call or busy on facetime.
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When the recipient declines the incoming facetime call
For example, you dialed a number on your facetime, it start to ring then immediately the call ends and showed facetime unavailable.
And for the second time, you called the same person is on facetime and it you hear beeps which indicates the recipient phone is ringing, immediately the call ends and showed facetime unavailable.
This alone indicate that the recipient is declining your facetime call.
There are several reasons why a recipient will decline a facetime call, but being busy on facetime or on another call is one of the reasons.
Let me explain this to you.
If someone is on another call on facetime or busy on facetime, and you called the person, the person will receive your incoming facetime call.
Now it is left for the person to decline your call, or probably accept your call and end the other call.
When it comes to being busy on facetime and receiving another facetime call, there’s no option to put the other call on hold. If it is a cellular call, the recipient can put the other call on hold, and answer your call.
For the fact that facetime calls has no Put on Hold option, the recipient has two options to choose from, and which is;
- End the other call and accept your call.
- Decline your incoming facetime call.
In most cases the recipient will decline the incoming facetime call until he or she is done with the other facetime call.
Below attachment is a typical example of how it will look like on the recipient screen.
As you can see, the recipient has two options to choose and which is end decline your call, or end the other call and accept your call.
So facetime call ending abruptly after one or two rings is a good sign of the recipient declining the call, which maybe us due to the recipient being in another call on facetime.
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What happens when you FaceTime someone who is already Facetiming?
The facetime call will go through to the recipient, but it is left for the recipient to end the other call and accept your facetime call, or decline your facetime call.
Kindly note that if you facetime someone who is already in another facetime call, the person will receive your incoming facetime call.
Your incoming facetime call will be displayed on the recipient screen blocking the other facetime call display. So it is left for the recipient to decline your call, or end the other call and accept your call.
As I said earlier, facetime call has no Put on Hold feature or option as when someone is on another call and receives a cellular incoming call.
So there’s a tendency that the recipient will decline your call and call back later.
Asking how to know if someone is busy on facetime call, kindly know that if someone is declining your facetime call after one or two rings, the person may be busy on facetime.
Probably on another facetime call.
However, facetime don’t indicate or show if someone is busy on facetime or on another call.
That’s why if trying to understand how to know if someone is on facetime, it is quite difficult as facetime don’t indicate if someone is on facetime or busy on facetime.
Does FaceTime pause when someone else calls?
No. Facetime doesn’t pause when someone else to calls. However, it will display the incoming call on the person’s screen and it is left for the person to decline the incoming call or accept it and end the other call.
During a facetime call, be it audio call or a facetime video call, the call won’t be paused if there’s an incoming facetime call, but rather the incoming facetime call will be displayed on the recipient screen.
The recipient can simply ignore your call, decline it or maybe end the other call and accept your call.
What happens when someone calls you while on FaceTime?
If someone calls you while on facetime, you will receive the new incoming facetime call but the other call won’t be paused or end right away.
By default, facetime will display the new incoming call on your screen though you’re still on another call. So it is left for you to decline that very incoming call, or end the other call and accept the incoming call.
All these answers the question of the day, how to know if someone is busy on facetime call. Facetime is not like whatsapp that you can easily know if someone is on another call.
Maybe later in the future or the next ios updates, apple may decide to add a feature to know if someone is on another call on facetime, and also if someone is online on iMessage.
These two are very essential in ios and they are lacking the features we see in whatsapp and other voip services and instant messaging apps and services.
Lastly, How can you tell when someone is Facetiming? Kindly note that you can’t tell when someone is Facetiming as facetime doesn’t have the feature to know if someone you’re trying to call is on another facetime call or to know if someone is on facetime.
