Scanning starts a FaceTime call to your number or Apple ID — useful for support desks and remote assistance points on Apple hardware.
This works only for people on Apple hardware, which makes it a poor choice for anything the general public scans. It is a reasonable one for a support desk or an assistance point where you already know what the visitor is holding.
Enter content to generate QR code
The code holds a facetime:// address, which is Apple’s own URL scheme for placing a video call. An iPhone, iPad or Mac reads it and opens FaceTime with the call ready to place; the person still confirms, so a scan never rings anyone by itself. The scheme is Apple-only — an Android phone has nothing registered to handle it and will show an address it cannot open.
Apple ID ana@example.com, and the code holds:
facetime://ana@example.comAn Apple URL scheme, not a web address. Nothing on Android is registered to handle it, which is the single most important fact about this code type.
facetime:// is registered by iOS, iPadOS and macOS and by nothing else. If your audience is mixed, this is the wrong code for a public sign. The cross-platform route is a FaceTime link, the shareable https address FaceTime generates from "Create Link", which opens in a browser on Android and Windows too; encode that with the URL type instead.
The facetime:// scheme starts a video call. There is no option here to make it an audio-only one, so place the code where a video call is what you actually want — a help point with a camera, not a phone line replacement.
Either a phone number in full international format or an Apple ID email address works, but it must be one registered with FaceTime. A number that is not enabled for FaceTime produces a call that fails after the person has already committed to it, which is worse than no code at all. Test from a device that is not signed into that account.
No. facetime:// is an Apple URL scheme and Android has nothing registered to open it. For a mixed audience, use FaceTime’s "Create Link" feature and encode that https link with the URL type — those links open in a browser on Android and Windows.
Not with this type. The code uses the video calling scheme. Put it where a video call is the intention, and use a phone number code if you want an ordinary voice call.
No. FaceTime opens with the call ready and the person confirms, so an accidental scan cannot call you.
Either, as long as it is registered with FaceTime. Use the international format for a number. Test the code from a device not signed into your account, because an unregistered identifier fails only at the moment somebody tries to call.
Not in this form — facetime:// is an Apple URL scheme rather than a web address. A FaceTime link made with "Create Link" is an https address, and that one can be dynamic: encode it with the URL type and you can repoint it later, which also solves the Android problem.