Make a call with Wi-Fi Calling

With Wi-Fi Calling, you can make or receive a phone call if you have a Wi-Fi connexion in an area with little or no cellular coverage. Learn how to brand a voice 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 > Telephone > Wi-Fi Calling. You might demand to enter or confirm your address for emergency services.*

If Wi-Fi Calling is available, you'll see Wi-Fi after your carrier proper noun in the condition bar. Then your calls volition utilise Wi-Fi Calling.

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

Add together a device

Make sure that the device you desire to add together has the latest version of software. And 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. Get back to the previous screen, so tap Calls on Other Devices.
  4. Turn on Allow Calls on Other Devices if information technology'south not on. A list of your eligible devices appears under Allow Calls On.
  5. Turn on each device that y'all desire to use with Wi-Fi Calling.

Side by side, make sure that your other devices will have calls from your iPhone:

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

Wi-Fi Calling is enabled automatically for Apple Watch when you plough on Allow Calls on Other Devices.

If you tin can't add a device, check these items:

  • On your iPhone, make certain that Wi-Fi Calling and Permit Calls on Other Devices are on, and that your device appears under Allow Calls On.
  • Make certain that you're using the same Apple tree 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.

Make sure that you're signed in to iCloud and FaceTime with the same Apple tree ID that you utilise on your iPhone. Besides make certain that your devices have the latest software.

To identify a Wi-Fi call from your iPad, iPod bear upon, Apple Spotter, or Mac, follow these steps.

Call from your iPad, iPod bear on, or Mac

  1. If you lot haven't added your device yet, which allows it to utilise Wi-Fi Calling, add it.
  2. Open up FaceTime.
  3. Enter a contact or telephone number, and then tap the contact or telephone number.
  4. Tap the Audio button Audio push button.

You can also place a telephone call past tapping a phone number in Contacts, Post, Messages, Safari, and other apps.

Phone call from your Apple Watch

  1. Open the Phone app.
  2. Choose a contact.
  3. Tap the phone pushWi-Fi call.
  4. Select the number or address that you want to call.

Remove a device

If y'all don't desire to use Wi-Fi Calling from ane of your devices, you can remove it:

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

Become 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 y'all can't turn on Wi-Fi Calling or make a Wi-Fi call. Wait ii minutes before you become from one step to the next.

  1. Become to Settings > Telephone > Wi-Fi Calling and brand certain that Wi-Fi Calling is on.
  2. Restart your iPhone.
  3. Connect to a unlike Wi-Fi network. Non all Wi-Fi networks work with Wi-Fi Calling.
  4. Plow Wi-Fi Calling off so on again.
  5. Go to Settings > Full general > Transfer or Reset iPhone > Reset, and tap Reset Network Settings.

FaceTime isn't available in all countries or regions.

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