Does Continuity Camera support full portrait video on Mac?

Does Continuity Camera support full portrait video on Mac, without cropping a landscape feed?

I want to use my iPhone 17 Pro Max as a portrait camera on an Apple M2 Pro Mac, with full upright 9:16 framing rather than cropping a landscape image. The current operating systems are iOS 27.2 and macOS 27.2.

Using Apple Continuity Camera, the iPhone is locked, stable, and mounted upright with the rear cameras facing the subject. Rotating the phone from portrait to landscape and back does not make the receiving video frame portrait.

This was observed in TikTok LIVE Studio 1.38.0, including after a clean reinstall, and in QuickTime Player. Filling a vertical scene in LIVE Studio only crops the received landscape image. LIVE Studio 1.39.6 is now installed, but has not yet been retested.

For comparison, VDO.Ninja displayed a portrait image from the same phone on this Mac. TikTok Phone Camera via QR also worked in portrait on a physical Windows laptop, although that is a different capture method.

Apple's support article says that the iPhone can be mounted in portrait orientation. Does this mean that Continuity Camera can deliver a full portrait video frame to a macOS app, such as 1080x1920, without cropping a landscape feed? If so, which application or setting supports it? If not, is landscape output an intended limitation or a known issue?

I am asking about frame orientation and aspect ratio, not the Portrait background-blur effect. Please help identify whether this belongs to Continuity Camera, the receiving apps, or an unsupported capture mode.

Posted on Nov 9, 2026 8:12 AM

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SravanKrA

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Nov 10, 2026 12:46 AM in response to Luntrasul

If you are asking whether Continuity Camera supports full portrait video on a Mac without cropping a landscape feed, the answer is straightforward: Yes, when using your iPhone as a Continuity Camera with FaceTime on your Mac, the camera supports both landscape and portrait orientations. It can capture video in portrait orientation without simply cropping a landscape feed to fit the portrait frame.

However, the behaviour may vary depending on the application you are using. Not all third-party apps necessarily support native portrait video capture through Continuity Camera in the same way as FaceTime. Apps such as TikTok may handle the camera feed differently, depending on their own camera implementation, video format requirements, and aspect ratio settings.

Therefore, the ability to capture full portrait video without cropping is not necessarily consistent across all Mac applications. The results may depend on whether the application supports portrait orientation natively or adjusts the incoming camera feed to fit its own video layout.