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If you, like me, adopt typing on your laptop's keyboard rather than the tiny iPhone keypad, or you neutral don't appetite to switch fittings to apologizing a text or call, you can set up your Mac to understand calls as well-built as texts from your iPhone. With an Borough ID, you can also skyrocket texts as well-built as make calls over the internet application the Messages as well-built as FaceTime apps on your Mac.

To make calls application cellular service or to skyrocket SMS messages through your carrier (as repelling to over the internet), your iPhone needs to be running iOS 8.1 or retral as well-built as your Mac needs to be running OS X Yosemite or later.

Note: Afterward these instructions won't transfigurement your contacts enclosed your Mac as well-built as your iPhone. To do that, you'll either okay to set up iCloud contacts or trailblaze them.

Sign in to Messages with your Borough ID

First, make sure you're signed into Messages on your Mac as well-built as on your iPhone with the same Borough ID. Here's how:

• To hackamore your Borough ID on your iPhone, go to "Settings" > "Messages" > "Send & Receive"
• To hackamore your Borough ID on your Mac, ajar up the Messages app. Click on "Messages" in the menu bar as well-built as then weeded "Preferences" from the drop-down menu. Click on "iMessage" at the top of the window.

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Check that you're signed into the correct Borough account.

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Set up text bulletin forwarding

To set your Mac up to understand SMS messages sent to your phone:

• On your iPhone, ajar up Settings
• Scroll down as well-built as go to "Messages"
• Tap "Text Bulletin Forwarding"
• Toggle on the switch abutting to your laptop's name

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Here, you can find various settings for Messages.

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Make sure your Mac is toggled on to understand text messages.

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Set up FaceTime as well-built as iCloud

Make sure that both fittings are consanguineous to the same Wi-Fi network as well-built as that you're signed into FaceTime as well-built as iCloud on both your Mac as well-built as your iPhone application the same Borough ID. Here's how:

• On your iPhone, ajar up "Settings." You should see your Borough ID at the top of the settings screen. Annal down as well-built as click on "FaceTime" to see which magazine is enabled.
• On your Mac, click the Borough figure in the top-left corner of your screen, as well-built as weeded "System Preferences." Make sure you're signed into the correct Borough account. Then ajar up your FaceTime app, click "FaceTime" in the menu bar at the top of the screen, as well-built as weeded "Preferences" from the drop-down menu. At the top of the window, you'll see which magazine you're signed into.

Allow calls on unneeded devices

Now you'll need to toggle on a few settings on your iPhone:

• On your iPhone, ajar up Settings as well-built as then tap "Phone"
• Tap "Calls on Unneeded Devices"
• Toggle on "Allow Calls on Unneeded Devices"
• While you're in "Calls on Unneeded Devices," make sure your Mac is toggled on

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You'll use this menu to enable both Calls on Unneeded Fittings as well-built as Wi-Fi Calling.

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• On your Mac, ajar up the FaceTime app
• Click on "FaceTime" in the menu bar at the top of the screen as well-built as weeded "Preferences" from the drop-down options
• Select "Settings" in the pop-up window
• Check the box abutting to "Calls from iPhone"

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Make sure you weeded the box abutting to Calls from iPhone.

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Keep in mind that in payoff for you to understand calls from your phone, your fittings should be privately each unneeded as well-built as consanguineous to the same Wi-Fi network. To understand calls on your Mac back it's consanguineous to a diverse Wi-Fi network, use Wi-Fi calling.

Set up Wi-Fi Calling

If your Mac, your phone (iPhone 5S / 5C or later), as well-built as your carrier tangency it, you can upheaval on Wi-Fi Calling, which places calls over the internet as repelling to cellular service. It also lets you make calls from fittings that are not on the same Wi-Fi networks as your phone (depending on your carrier) as well-built as also lets you make calls back your phone is switched off.

• On your iPhone, go to "Settings" > "Phone" as well-built as weeded "Wi-Fi Calling"
• Toggle on "Wi-Fi Calling on This iPhone." A pop-up window will unmask you how it communicates sector documents to your carrier. Tap "Enable."

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Enable Wi-Fi Calling by toggling on the switch at the top of this screen.

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After you switch on Wi-Fi Calling, you'll get this message.

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• Toggle on "Add Wi-Fi Calling For Unneeded Devices." You may get a bulletin from your carrier with intercommunication anyway Wi-Fi Calling, billing, as well-built as 911 calls, including that if you inexorableness 911 with Wi-Fi Calling, your carrier may use your intuitive sector intercommunication or the emergency biosphere stored in your settings to route the inexorableness to an emergency response center. Click "Continue" at the lesser of the notice.
• In exchequer sector documents is not available, you are right to reconcile an biosphere for emergency calls. Your carrier may store an biosphere (like your disinterring address) for you already, loosely you can meander it by clobber on the chapfallen "Update Emergency Address" in the stereotype of the screen as well-built as afterward the on-screen prompts.

Now you'll need to set up your Mac.

• You may get a notification on your Mac postliminary enabling Wi-Fi calling on your phone. In that case, click "Turn On," as well-built as you'll either be taken to the Preferences window or to the plaza FaceTime menu. You'll see a smaller window translating you that your sector will be shared for emergency calls. Click "OK" to exuviate this.

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You'll be notified that your sector will be shared for emergency calls.

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• If you don't see the notification, ajar FaceTime on your Mac, click on FaceTime in the menu bar as well-built as optate "Preferences" from the drop-down menu.
• Make sure "Settings" is called at the top of the window
• If your device supports Wi-Fi Calling, you'll see a puny that says, "Upgrade to Wi-Fi Calling" underneath "Calls from iPhone." Click on it.
• You'll get a pop-up window reference that your sector may be shared with your carrier. Click "Enable" to continue.

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As with your iPhone, you'll get a pop-up window saying how your carrier will use sector data.

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• You'll also need to reconcile an emergency biosphere here. Postliminary you click "Update to Wi-Fi Calling," that puny will be replaced with a puny that says "Update Emergency Address." Click on that to view and, if necessary, meander your address.

And you're done!