Re: Trouble doing Mac-to-Mac FaceTime

On 9/11/24 7:38 AM, Jolly Roger wrote:

On 2024-09-10, Connor Shannon <cshannon1898@yahoo.com> wrote:

On 9/9/24 7:49 AM, Jolly Roger wrote:

On 2024-09-08, Connor Shannon <cshannon1898@yahoo.com> wrote:

I have a friend I like to do FaceTime with pretty often. We've been
having lots of trouble getting connections between our Macs, FT
keeps trying to use our iPhones. Like I'll call him in the FT app on
my MacBook and it says "Using iPhone," so I end the call and try
again.  Or I start a FT and it starts from my Mac but then my
friend's iPhone alerts him instead of his iMac.
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Somehow we always finally end up on the Macs but does any body know
how we can do that right away and keep the iPhones from being used
on either end?

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When someone calls you on FaceTime, all of your devices will alert
you o the call and you can answer the call on whichever device you
want. Just because your friend sees/hears the call ring on one device
doesn't mean they have to answer it on that device.

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Hmmm, we'll check again but I'm pretty sure only the iPhone has been
rining and there hasn't been anything to answer on the Macs.

 You probably just didn't notice the notification on the Mac.

We were sitting right in front of our Macs with FT open waiting for the call!!

 Otherwise, check FaceTime settings on the Mac in question by opening the
FaceTime app and choosing Settings from the FaceTime menu in the menu
bar at the top of the screen.

Okay what do I do with the settings? Turn off the phone number so I can only be called with my email address? Turn off Calls from iPhone? Some other setting to force calls to the Mac?

This goes without saying, but naturally
the Mac must be signed into the same iCloud account as the iPhone for
you to receive FaceTime calls there.

Well it must be b'cuz I'm signed in for other Apple things and also eventually we get a Mac to Mac connection just a lot of times not on the first try.