The latest version of iOS lets you control someone's iPhone via Facetime, which is incredibly helpful for troubleshooting. Here's how it works.

How to take control of someone else's iPhone What you need: With your iPhone and the other iPhone both running iOS 18, you can start a FaceTime call and then remotely access the other phone.

It's possible to do screen sharing with someone during a call that includes more than two people, but you're not able to control the screen -- that works only with one-to-one calls.

“During a one-to-one FaceTime video or audio call, you can remotely control someone else’s screen or allow a trusted person to remotely control yours,” Apple’s website says.

Promises of investment windfalls and Bitcoin have seen a rise in people allowing cyber criminals to use remote desktop software to access their online accounts - which then get drained.