Q: can’t make phone call on my mac from yosemite from contacts

the icon means facetime call, not cell phone call.

You can see the cell call, when your mouse point put on phone number's right place.

They are hiding before mouse point come.

Cell phone call icons are hiding, before you mouse point come closely.

Try moving your mouse point to the right place of phone number...

same here, i can receive calls, but no msg/ no chance to make a call... the thing is,,, every thing is up to date,,, same wifi connection,,, same apple and iCloud on both devices either for FaceTime or messages,,, everything is the same but the problem exists,,, why is that so?

After lots of testing, I think MY problem is that my phone number isn't verified in Facetime/iMessage. And that's because my carrier can't send SMS to Vodafone UK (the number the iPhone sends the hidden verification message to).

Is anyone able to MAKE calls WITHOUT having their number verified? Thanks..

pretty sure i'm verified because i'm using my iMessage with no problem and it gets also synchronised easily and quickly with message application of my mac,,, but still i receive calls but not capable of making calls or sending or receiving msgs from my GSM carrier on my mac

nothing working...i've tried everything...i deactivated FaceTime and reactivated it in both my devices (mac and iphone)..i can only receive incoming calls! so strange

These advanced features will require the general release (and installation on your iDevice) of IOS 8.1, available Monday.

Not true. All of these features should and do work with iOS 8.0.2.

You can also try Facetime Calls

Steven

I was having a similar problem.  Incoming calls worked but not outbound.   I went into Settings on my iPhone.  Found FaceTime ... Even though the Setting for iPhone Cellular Calls was green ... I set it off and back on again.  Now my outbound calls are working fine.  I have a late 2013 MBP.

hello

they both have to be connected on the same wifi network, and then, use FaceTime app on you mac to make the call.

Hope it solves

i have same wifi, same iCloud id, same apple id, i even got my iphone's iMessages synched on iMessage on my mac, i even can have calls received on my mac, still can't call

the funny thing is, even i get my facetiae's call log synchronised on my mac's FaceTime application, when i use my iPhone FaceTime to call my brother, the call duration and everything about it appears on my mac's FaceTime. they are completely interconnected either iMessage or FaceTime but still can't call !!!

i think is a issue of yosemite..i've tried everything..but the problem is still the same..i hope Apple will resolve this soon

So i fixed mines. Make sure your connected both FaceTime on iPhone and iMac, same number and everything... My problem was the iPhone Cellular Calls was off i turned it on and it started making call. Must be connected on the same Wifi or try the iPhone Hotspot.

Well done! I tried what you did and it worked as well. I can now make and receive calls on my mac and iPad.

Thanks!!

After having this problem and reading through a number of threads I believe I have solved this problem.

The issue seems to be that the exact Apple ID (whether iCloud.com or not etc) must be used on both the iPhone/Ipad and also the Mac. It may sound simple but I would suggest you signout and re-enter. For clarity, do the following:

1). Go onto your Mac, Settings, iCloud and signout of apple id (perhaps retaining your contacts on the mac as it gives you that option)

2). Go onto your iPhone/iPad, Settings, iCloud and do the same

3). Re sign-in on both devices with exactly the same username and password.

Low and behold it works!! I did not try this for days as I was convinced that both were identical on my two devices but I was wrong.

HOPE THIS HELPS!