Make a phone call with Wi-Fi Calling

With Wi-Fi Calling, you can make or receive a phone call if you take a Wi-Fi connection in an area with piffling or no cellular coverage. Learn how to make a phonation telephone call using Wi-Fi Calling.

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An iPhone showing the Wi-Fi Calling screen, with Wi-Fi Calling on This Phone turned on.

Place Wi-Fi calls from your iPhone

Turn on Wi-Fi calling in Settings > Phone > Wi-Fi Calling. You might need to enter or confirm your address for emergency services.*

If Wi-Fi Calling is bachelor, yous'll run into Wi-Fi later on your carrier name in the condition bar. Then your calls will use Wi-Fi Calling.

* When cellular service is available, your iPhone uses it for emergency calls. If yous turned on Wi-Fi Calling and cellular service isn't available, emergency calls might utilise Wi-Fi calling. Your device's location may be used to assist response efforts when you place an emergency call, regardless of whether you enable Location Services.

Add a device

Make sure that the device yous want to add has the latest version of software. Then follow these steps:

An iPhone showing the Calls on Other Devices screen. Allow Calls on Other Devices is turned on and allowing calls on John's iPad and John's MacBook Pro.

  1. On your iPhone, go to Settings > Phone > Wi-Fi Calling.
  2. Turn on Add Wi-Fi Calling For Other Devices.
  3. Go dorsum to the previous screen, then tap Calls on Other Devices.
  4. Plow on Allow Calls on Other Devices if information technology's non on. A list of your eligible devices appears under Allow Calls On.
  5. Turn on each device that you want to utilize with Wi-Fi Calling.

Next, make sure that your other devices will accept calls from your iPhone:

  • On your iPad or iPod touch, go to Settings > FaceTime. Then turn on Calls from iPhone.
  • On your Mac, open the FaceTime app and choose FaceTime > Preferences. And so turn on Calls from iPhone.

Wi-Fi Calling is enabled automatically for Apple Lookout man when yous turn on Let Calls on Other Devices.

If y'all tin't add together a device, check these items:

  • On your iPhone, brand sure that Wi-Fi Calling and Allow Calls on Other Devices are on, and that your device appears under Allow Calls On.
  • Make sure that you're using the same Apple ID for FaceTime and iCloud on your iPhone and your other device.

Make and receive Wi-Fi calls from another device

If your carrier supports Wi-Fi Calling on iCloud-continued devices, you tin can also make and receive Wi-Fi calls on other devices.

Brand certain that you're signed in to iCloud and FaceTime with the same Apple ID that you use on your iPhone. Also make sure that your devices have the latest software.

To place a Wi-Fi call from your iPad, iPod touch on, Apple Watch, or Mac, follow these steps.

Call from your iPad, iPod touch on, or Mac

  1. If y'all haven't added your device withal, which allows it to use Wi-Fi Calling, add it.
  2. Open FaceTime.
  3. Enter a contact or phone number, and then tap the contact or phone number.
  4. Tap the Audio button Audio button.

You tin likewise place a call by borer a telephone number in Contacts, Mail service, Letters, Safari, and other apps.

Call from your Apple tree Spotter

  1. Open up the Phone app.
  2. Cull a contact.
  3. Tap the phone pushWi-Fi call.
  4. Select the number or accost that you lot desire to telephone call.

Remove a device

If you don't want to use Wi-Fi Calling from one of your devices, you tin remove it:

  1. On your iPhone, go to Settings > Phone > Calls on Other Devices.
  2. In the list of devices, plow off Wi-Fi Calling for the device that you lot desire to remove.

Get help

If you can't turn on or use Wi-Fi Calling, make sure that your carrier offers Wi-Fi Calling and that your devices have the latest software. Then, follow these steps if yous tin't turn on Wi-Fi Calling or brand a Wi-Fi call. Wait two minutes before y'all go from one step to the adjacent.

  1. Go to Settings > Phone > Wi-Fi Calling and make sure that Wi-Fi Calling is on.
  2. Restart your iPhone.
  3. Connect to a unlike Wi-Fi network. Not all Wi-Fi networks work with Wi-Fi Calling.
  4. Plough Wi-Fi Calling off then on again.
  5. Get to Settings > General > Transfer or Reset iPhone > Reset, and tap Reset Network Settings.

FaceTime isn't available in all countries or regions.

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