His work has appeared in Computer Currents, The Examiner, and other publications. He is a developer who has published apps in the Apple App Store, Google Play marketplace and Amazon Appstore; he also has worked as a data analyst and DB administrator. This article explains how to use Facetime, the Messages app, and third-party apps to make calls. The easiest way to make phone calls with your iPad is by using the video conferencing software called FaceTime.
These calls are free, so even if you're using your iPhone, you won't be using your minutes. You can even receive calls on FaceTime by having people contact the email address associated with your Apple ID. These instructions apply to devices running iOS 10 and later. Here's how to use FaceTime. Open the FaceTime app. You can include multiple contacts in your call. You can also start typing the name of a contact on the keyboard, and FaceTime completes it automatically. When you've selected everyone you want to contact, press one of the call buttons to make an Audio voice-only or Video call.
FaceTime places the call. You can also make FaceTime calls to your contacts through the Messages app. Just like in the FaceTime app, you can only call people whose Apple IDs connect to their phone numbers. Open the Messages app. If you have a conversation open with the person you want to contact, tap that thread.
Otherwise, you need to start a new one. Tap the contact's image at the top of the screen. Tap FaceTime to start a video call, or audio to start an audio-only call.
New customer? Create your account. Lost password? Recover password. Remembered your password? Back to login. Already have an account? Login here. Most of these settings can only be accessed on a computer, and not through the app. If you're an iPhone or iPad user getting rid of your old cell service, it may also help to go into the iMessage settings and make sure iMessage is only receiving at your email address, and not your old phone number. That's it, you should be ready to go!
Make some free calls from your iPad phone and see if anybody notices. There are some alternative to use iPad as phone without a Google Voice number, although functionality may be limited. FaceTime can be used to make voice calls by pressing the telephone icon instead of the camera icon. For calls, the iPhone must be on the same wifi network. Texts will work as long as the iPhone and other Apple device are both connected to the internet cellular or different wifi networks. Most require that the other party also have the app installed on their device.
Tablet data plans are a bargain compared to most smartphone plans. Newer iPads support multiple carriers, so here are some things to consider when picking a carrier. The Verizon prepaid tablet plan has the best LTE coverage nationwide, but their 3G network is slow, and plans are more expensive at some levels. They don't advertise some of their more flexible plans, go here and look at both Data Connect and Data Connect Pass options.
T-Mobile is a great option if their coverage is acceptable in your area. They give away MB of data every month, offer rollover data on plans 1GB and above, and wifi hotspots are included on all levels. Not much to say about Sprint. Great article, thanx! What is your opinion about iPad as a phone after half year? And what do you think now about Google Voice? And I found Viber, Rebtel and finally Smartgroschen… Smartgroschen is a new app with many possibilities and high voice quality. The most important: calls with low rates.
Cheaper than Skype. I figure may as well make it my phone also. My question is, now that hangouts works as a call service is that a viable option as well and how do you deal with the SMS issue. I understand the iMessage portion of your blog above but what about if someone sends me a standard SMS to my cell number after its been ported to Google Voice? Where is that received and responded? I could have missed something you already covered. Thanks for your assistance.
Hi Jason. If you ported your number to google voice you can send and receive actual phone calls too if you use the talkatone app. Been doing this with a cellular iPad mini for a year now. You just have to remember that the mic is on top of the ipad if you are holding it like a phone. Still trying to figure out the thing myself. Any idea how to find what the 10 digit number to a local dispatcher is?
Apple really just need to enable emergency calls as it does use an actual local phone number for data. Many say to dial for emergencies, though. Good point about the mic being on the top of the iPad. A pair of EarPods sound great though if you have them. I have read comments in blogs that Google will no longer allow Talkatone to use Google Voice as of May Something to do with Google merging google voice into Gogle Hangouts.
Are you experiencing any oddities with your Talkatone service now? Some Talkatone users are already complaining of outages. As for the delimma…. I remember reading somewhere that an old crummy cellphone should still be able to dial EVEN without any service provider. I have not tried this yet but plan to test this shortly. Anyone know more about this and can offer more info? It previously had verizon on it. I got through to with no issues. Just tell them you are testing an old phone for service and they understand.
No outages yet. Hope they have a viable google hangout alternative for phone calls and texts. And yeah any old flip phone can still reach I made the plunge and ported my number to google voice in late I use an iPad 2.
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