How To Turn Off Facetime Gesture Reactions On Ios 17

Disable iOS 17 FaceTime Reactions on iPhone

When you’re on a ‌FaceTime‌ video call on an iPhone or iPad, you can easily trigger on-screen effects like fireworks, hearts, confetti, balloons, and more floating the display over the window. Unarguably, FaceTime‌ reaction effects make video calls with family & friends more fun. However, there may be certain situations when you want to make sure that you don’t accidentally trigger any reactions. For instance, you won’t ever want to flood the screen with hearts during your official meetings.
Since the iOS 17 hand gesture reactions feature is turned on by default, it’s easy to trigger the gestures unintentionally. Fortunately, you can manually turn off FaceTime reactions on your iPhone. Just follow the below steps:

Open the FaceTime app on your iPhone. Swipe down from the top-right corner of the screen to open the Control Center. From the top-left corner, tap on Effects. Now, tap on the Reactions button so it’s no longer selected.

Finally, swipe up to return to the FaceTime app.

Disable Hand Gesture Reactions on Third-Party Apps on iPhone

Interestingly, Apple is releasing a new API with iOS 17.4 that allows third-party video conferencing apps to turn off gesture-based reactions by default in their apps. It means the hand gesture reactions won’t be enabled by default. It would be the choice of the user if he wants to enable the feature or not. We’ll update this article when third-party video conferencing apps like Zoom, and WhatsApp roll out the feature to disable reactions.