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Based on my research I haven't found a solution but a client wants to have their mobile site trigger Facetime on their user's phone (iPhone). I know skype works fine but for people on the go we would lke this functionality. Has anyone encountered this or have a clever work around?

This is what I am using:

<input type="tel" placeholder="xxx-xxx-xxxx" />

Thinking something like this: (use tel as a fallback..)

<input type="tel vidtel" placeholder="xxx-xxx-xxxx" />

Does this exist? Thanks!

BoltClock
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Apparently you can use a URL Scheme.

<a href="facetime:14085551234">Connect using FaceTime</a>
<a href="facetime:user@example.com">Connect using FaceTime</a>

Source: https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/featuredarticles/iPhoneURLScheme_Reference/FacetimeLinks/FacetimeLinks.html

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  • Same issue for me - but that solution isn't passing the address/number to be called to the app, it only opens it in iOS 8. Thoughts? http://stackoverflow.com/questions/27749122/apple-facetime-url-scheme-not-initiating-call – Zephyr Mays Jan 06 '15 at 18:35