Note, though, for the Mac to receive calls, your iPhone has to be on (it can be sleeping) and within Bluetooth range of your Mac that is, unless you have also enabled Wi-Fi Calling on your iPhone (Settings > Phone) and in FaceTime on your Mac (FaceTime > Preferences). In my case, any call to my iPhone also rings on my Mac, two iPads, and my Apple Watch, so I have a wide choice of answering options! When a call comes into my iPhone, a notification appears on my Mac from which I can answer the call, decline it, or send it to voicemail using the pop-up menu attached to the notification’s Decline button. Your Mac and your iPhone are now buddies as long as both are on the same Wi-Fi network: any calls to your iPhone’s number will also ring on your Mac - as well as on any other devices you have enabled to receive calls from your iPhone. You may be asked to verify an emergency address for things like 911 calls if so, go ahead.

Open the FaceTime app in the Applications folder and go to FaceTime > Preferences (Command-,) and enable Calls from iPhone.

With that out of the way, it’s time to make your Mac phone-friendly, and the key to that is FaceTime. Then turn on the switch for your Mac, which appears on the same Settings screen if you have other devices that also use the same Apple ID for iCloud, and you want to make calls with them, you can enable those devices as well. Next, on your iPhone, go to Settings > Phone > Calls on Other Devices and turn that switch on. On your Mac, you do this in System Preferences > iCloud on your iPhone, you do it in Settings > iCloud. The first thing you need to do is to make sure your iPhone and your Mac are both signed into iCloud with the same Apple ID. If you have a Mac running OS X 10.10 Yosemite or later, and an iPhone running iOS 8 or later, you can set them up to do the same as long as both devices are on the same Wi-Fi network. These days, when someone calls me on the phone when I’m at my desk, chances are I’ll take the call on my speakerphone, which happens to have a 27-inch Retina display and stereo speakers: in other words, my iMac.

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