How to Make FaceTime Audio Calls When Your Cell Signal Sucks…
How to Make FaceTime Audio Calls When Your Cell Signal Sucks…
This week, my wife Carrie had a group phone call with her two sisters. During the call, one sister had a bad cell signal, and the conversation was interrupted several times.
It just so happens this sister lives in a poor cell coverage area, and these types of interruptions happen frequently.
When the group phone conversation was winding down, I suggested next time they use FaceTime’s audio call feature instead.
FaceTime Audio has been around for years as an alternative to doing calls with your cell phone number. The difference is it uses Apple IDs to connect the call over the Internet via your home Wi-Fi not your number via your cell provider’s network.
That being said, in today’s learning lesson, you’ll learn how to make a FaceTime Audio call over Wi-Fi and what type of devices can participate in the call.
So, grab a beverage of choice, maybe a snack, your iPhone or iPad, and settle in for your newsletter learning session with Dave. 👩🏽🎓👨🏽🎓
How to make a FaceTime Audio Call
You may be familiar with FaceTime Video calls, which are great for when you want to see the person on the other end of the call.
A FaceTime Audio call is a voice-based only call. FaceTime Audio often offers better call quality than a regular phone call because uses the Internet network, which is normally more stable than cell networks.
The only downside to FaceTime is that audio calls are only available for Apple users. You can’t use Facetime Audio to call someone that uses an Android device.
(Although now you can make FaceTime video calls to Android users.)
Make a FaceTime Audio call:
To make a FaceTime call, you need the person’s phone number or registered email address. Let’s do this!
- On your iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch, or Mac tap or click the http://ukadventureracing.co.uk/2012/07/uk-adventure-racing-club-newsletter-july-12/ FaceTime app.
- Tap the green how many neurontin for high New FaceTime button.
- Next, type the phone number or email address connected to their Apple ID. You can add multiple contacts to the call.
- Tap the number or address, then tap the Audio call button
. - If you have the person’s phone number or email address saved in your Contacts, you can start typing their name and tap the name when it appears.
- Then tap the Audio call button .
Bonus: there are no long-distance call restrictions when using FaceTime audio. So, you can call friends around the world and get excellent sound quality (assuming they have a good Internet connection).
What type of devices can participate in the audio call
Keep in mind, you can make a FaceTime audio call from any Apple device that has the FaceTime app on it. This includes the iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch, and Mac.
If you have an Apple Watch, you can make a FaceTime audio call by selecting a contact in the Phone app > Contacts. Then select the Phone icon > FaceTime Audio call.
Android devices and Windows-based computers can only participate in FaceTime video (not audio) calls via the Create Link option within the FaceTime app (see image above).
Making a FaceTime Audio call from Contacts
You are not limited to using the FaceTime app to make FaceTime Audio calls. You can make them from the Contacts app as well.
- Open the Contacts app or tap Contacts in the Phone app.
- Tap on a contact name. On the contract screen, select Mobile.
- Next, select FaceTime > Audio.
- If you don’t see the FaceTime option, the contact most likely will have an Android phone. Therefore, FaceTime audio call is not supported with that contact.
There you go. Now you know how to make a FaceTime audio call over Wi-Fi when your phone has a bad cell signal.
Now, practice a FaceTime audio call right now. I want you to be familiar with the process when you really need to use it.
What’s on Tap Dave?
In your next learning lesson, you’ll learn how to save a voicemail message to another location on your phone, computer, or online storage. Keep an eye out for that!
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