"Your iPhone is not configured to make phone calls using your mac."

Shortly after downloading the full version of OS Yosemite, I tried making a phone call from my mac, and got this message, "Your iPhone is not configured to make phone calls using your mac."


I am not quite sure what to do next, any suggestions are appreciated.


Thanks in advance,

Patrick

iPhone 5, iOS 6.0.2

Posted on Oct 16, 2014 3:48 PM

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Posted on Oct 24, 2014 2:31 AM

Make sure that Facetime on your iPhone is ALSO configured to use your iCloud address / Apple ID (settings -> Facetime). It needs to be the same account that you use on your Mac.


If its only configured to use your phone number then you won't be able to make calls from your Mac, resulting in this error message appearing.

:-)

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Feb 10, 2015 4:47 AM in response to patrickredsox

I solved this issue by going into the facetime preferences on my MAC, and unchecking any of the other emails/phone numbers associated with my apple id. We share one account in my house for 3 phones and multiple emails, and it seems that when multiple phone numbers are selected for use on facetime on the mac, it doesn't know which to use to dial out.


Bad error message.

Mar 5, 2015 9:02 AM in response to patrickredsox

I needed to do several things on this list. One thing I found not on this list was the need to have the iPhone phone number in question selected on my Mac's FaceTime app. FaceTime -> Preferences -> Settings -> You can be reached for FaceTime at:


I had unchecked my iPhone's phone number to stop the pop-ups every time my phone rang. But now with Handoff being so handy, I needed to turn it back on.

Nov 29, 2015 7:30 AM in response to patrickredsox

My problem & solution:


I had changed my MacBook computer name but Apple didn't update it on my phone, so it no longer matched the device name selected in the "allow calls on" list on my iPhone. This was preventing me from being able to call out but still allowed incoming calls.


The solution was to logout of iCloud on my MacBook and back in again. This caused to device name in the list on my iPhone to be corrected.

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