How to make a phone call from a Mac

How to make a phone call from a Mac

If you have an iPhone you can make and receive calls on your Mac. The calls are routed via your iPhone so the number is the same friends and colleagues wont even realise you arent chatting with them on your handset. Follow this tutorial to find out how to set up your Mac to make and receive phone calls so that the next time your iPhone is ringing in another part of the house, or buried in the depths of your bag, you will see an alert and you will be able to answer the call from your Mac. And if you need to make a quick call to someone, you wont have to retrieve your iPhone either you can just place the call from your Mac. These phone calls will be routed via your iPhone, so all you need to remember is that the minutes will come out of your usual allocation as per your contract. Making a call from a Mac is easy, heres how: This works both ways. Once your Mac is set up to make phone calls as above you will also be able to receive them there. For more tips like this, we have lots of really handy Mac tips here: There are other ways to make phone calls on a Mac computer. You can download and install a VoIP (voice over internet protocol) app for MacOS and use that to make phone calls. Typically you can make free internet-based calls to anybody, although you may have to pay a small fee to make a phone call to a landline from the service. Skype is the biggest name in VOiP services, although other options are worth checking out. See: