On my early review unit iPads, I found Center Stage sometimes caused calls to stutter, or the feature started turning on and off. I found some of my chats still had me looking off-screen a bit, but more zoomed-in. Center Stage doesn't solve for that - it just handles framing you better. That means you're kind of staring off to the side sometimes in Zoom meetings (or at least, that happens to me). That's how most people use iPads for video chat, since most keyboards and stands also work in landscape mode. In landscape mode, iPads' cameras are still placed off to the side. It won't fix the iPad's eye contact problem It'll also try to track someone else in the room, or pull back to frame you both together. Just FYI: Don't keep other face-like forms near you when you're chatting. I tried Center Stage with a cut-out photo of myself, and a picture of me on an iPad, and it followed both. Weirdly, Apple's iPadOS doesn't natively support it in the camera app for recording videos - at least, not so far. It also worked on a few camera apps - Filmic Pro works with it, so you could record a selfie video and have it follow you around. I found it works on most major video-conferencing apps.

Zoom works with Center Stage: you can toggle support on and off in Zoom's iPad app settings. It works with Zoom and other apps - even video recording, in some cases Turning off Center Stage just reverts the camera to a non-moving view of your face. On Zoom, the Center Stage toggle is on the screen itself on the left side, when in a Zoom. Tap that and a Center Stage toggle appears (there's also a way to turn Portrait Mode for FaceTime on and off, too). In FaceTime and on many other apps, you'll need to swipe down in the Control Center (the panel of controls in the top corner of the screen), where there is a new Video Effects button. In FaceTime, and in other apps, Center Stage settings hide in the Control Center when the app is open.

Test zoom video call