MacOS Ventura, Apple’s latest operating system, includes a feature called Continuity Camera, which allows you to instantly adjust the iPhone camera to the Mac without disrupting video chats.

MacOS Ventura was unveiled on Monday as part of Apple’s Developers Conference (WWDC 2022), and it contains productivity tools like Visual Organizer as well as services centered on consistency.

Continuity Camera o Continuity Camera allows users to use the ultra-wide camera of the iPhone to snap images or record video at high quality while using macOS.

Users will no longer have to actively switch devices or end a video connection on an iPhone and reconnect from a Mac; instead, merely bringing the phone closer to the computer will cause it to recognize it and transfer the video call to this machine.

To accomplish this, macOS detects the iPhone’s camera and modifies settings such as capture quality, device orientation, and user preferences so that it can be used as the computer’s primary camera.

Users must have a Mac running macOS 13 beta or later, an iPhone running iOS 16 beta or later, and the Apple Xcode 14 beta or later integrated development environment to use this feature. Both devices must also be linked to an Apple ID account with two-factor authentication enabled.

As with the prior configuration, the iPhone must be connected to the computer using a USB cable. When macOS recognizes the device, it prompts the user to grant access to the camera and microphone on both the phone and the Mac.

Following synchronization, both devices can be connected by USB cable or wirelessly through Bluetooth with WiFi turned on, according to the Apple developer website.

Karen Xing, a software engineer, has disclosed some of the functionality of the Continuity Camera, which can be used with video conferencing and calling apps including FaceTime, Zoom, Teams, and WebEx.

This camera has the same characteristics as the iPhone camera, so you won’t lose video quality when you transfer it to your Mac, and it can also be utilized in portrait mode. In addition, compared to landscape orientation, the latter provides more zoom.

In the Control Center drop-down menu, you can also find video effects like illuminating the environment with Studio Light or blurring the background of the video conversation.

Regardless of the video conferencing platform utilized, all of these effects can be applied at the same time.