Technical Guide for Daily Connection

If you are connecting with only one other person and you are connecting in person or by phone, you do not need anything but your telephone, but if you are connecting with more than one other person or you are desiring to connect by video, then the following options are very helpful.  

Freeconferencecall.com

The best resource that we have found is Free Conference Calling.  Simply log on to  www.freeconferencecall.com  You will receive an immediate invitation to start a free account. (if it asks for a credit card number then you have clicked that you want a premium). You can even do video conferencing.  After signing up, you can choose to pay for "my one number" which is less than $4 per month and keeps your participants from having to enter a code.  For tutorials on how to use it go to https://www.freeconferencecall.com/support-center/en/us/categories/meetings

Zoom – 

If you have joined us on Zoom then you should be pretty familiar with it and it is an easy way to connect with groups. It is FREE!   Zoom has a great list of tutorials for how to start and host a meeting here:

https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/360034967471-Getting-started-guide-for-new-users

Facebook Messenger – 

If you and your friends have facebook messenger it is very easy to do a group call on it.  Follow these step by step directions:

1. Open up the Messenger app.2. Pick the group you want to call or create one by searching for people in the top search bar.3.  Tap the phone icon on the top right.4.  Select who you want to leave out. For example, if you're planning a surprise birthday party, you may want to exclude the birthday girl or boy.5.  Hit call at the bottom right.

For more information on facebook messenger call, check out https://www.tomsguide.com/us/facebook-messenger-group-call,review-3564.html

Conference calling on an Iphone:

How to start a conference call

1. Dial the first person and wait for the call to connect.2. Tap add call .3. Dial the second person, and wait for the call to connect. 4. Tap merge calls .5. The two calls merge into a conference call. To add additional people, repeat steps 2-4. If you don’t see the option to add another call, you might have reached the limit of participants for your carrier.

NOTE:  Only the person who started the conference call can see the names of all participants. But if a participant adds someone else, they can see the name of the person they added and the person who started the conference call.

If you don't see the merge call option, your carrier might not support it. Contact your carrier for more information about conference calling.

Facetime:

NOTE: To use Group FaceTime video calls, you need iOS 12.1.4 or later, or iPadOS. on one of these devices: iPhone 6s or later, iPad Pro or later, iPad Air 2 or later, iPad mini 4 or later, iPad (5th generation) or later, or iPod touch (7th generation). Earlier models of iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch that support iOS 12.1.4 can join Group FaceTime calls as audio participants.

Start a Group FaceTime call from the FaceTime app

1. Go to Settings > FaceTime, and make sure that FaceTime is on.2. Open FaceTime and tap  New FaceTime.3. Enter the contacts you want to call.4. Tap the Audio button  or  FaceTime.

You can add up to 32 people to a Group FaceTime call.

Start a Group FaceTime call from the Messages app 

1. Open Messages and start a group conversation. Or go to an existing group conversation.2. Tap the FaceTime button  in the upper-right corner.3. Tap FaceTime Audio  or FaceTime Video .

You can add up to 32 people to a Group FaceTime call.