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How to collaborate on a document in FaceTime on iPhone

In a FaceTime call, you can collaborate on a shared document. You can initiate collaboration in a FaceTime call that’s in progress, or you can initiate collaboration from the app where the document was created.

You can share the document through FaceTime, AirDrop, Mail, or Messages. Everyone who opens it can make changes and see changes made by others, and when someone makes a change, everyone who’s collaborating gets a notification.

  1. Start a conversation in the FaceTime app with the people you want to collaborate with.
  2. Open the app you want to use and then open a document.
  3. Do one of the following:
    • Tap Collaborate in the notification that appears.
    • Tap the Share button, choose how to share the document (FaceTime, AirDrop, Mail, or Messages), then tap Collaborate.
  4. Tap Start in the collaboration notification that appears at the top of your screen.

Participants get a notification that you’ve shared a document you want to collaborate on. When they tap Open in the notification, the document opens on their device.

Anyone who receives and opens the document can make changes and see the ones others make. Every change sends a notification to everyone who’s collaborating on the document.