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1 minute ago, Doug_Dangger said:

You said iCloud.  Does she have to pay or subscribe to that?

Nope, the account itself is entirely free. You only have to subscribe if you want extra cloud storage.

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Can one still use Facetime without a phone attached to an Apple account?

 

My mom has an Android phone.  I want to get her an iPad for mother's day.  Nearly all of her kids and grand kids have iPhones.  She loves video chatting with them using Zoom but it gets to be a hassle.  I'd like for her to just Facetime them since it's much easier to use.

 

If I get her an iPad, create an Apple account, would that be enough for her to Facetime others?

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Yep, you can just use it through your iCloud account, it'll use the email as the "number" to get hold of her.

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iPad 2018 - 128GB

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13 minutes ago, AMD A10-9600P said:

Yep, you can just use it through your iCloud account, it'll use the email as the "number" to get hold of her.

You said iCloud.  Does she have to pay or subscribe to that?

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1 minute ago, Doug_Dangger said:

You said iCloud.  Does she have to pay or subscribe to that?

Nope, the account itself is entirely free. You only have to subscribe if you want extra cloud storage.

Desktop - i5-9600KF @4.8GHz all core, MSI Z390-A PRO, 2x8GB Corsair Vengeance 3000MHz, MSI GTX 1660S OC 6GB, WD Blue 500GB M.2 SSD, Seagate Barracuda 2TB 7200RPM HDD

Laptop - ASUS ZenBook 14 with ScreenPad, i7-1165G7, Xe iGPU 96EU, 16GB Octa-Channel 4200MHz, MX450 2GB, 512GB SSD with 32GB Optane

 

Old Laptop 1 - HP Pavilion 15, A10-9600P, R5 iGPU, 8GB, R8 M445DX, 2TB HDD

Old Laptop 2 - HP Pavilion 15 TouchSmart, i3-3217U, Intel HD 4000, 4GB, 1TB HDD

 

iPad 2018 - 128GB

iPhone XR - 128GB

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