If you’re like most people, you probably spend a lot of time on your iPad. Whether you’re reading a book, checking your email, or browsing the web, an iPad is a great way to stay connected. But what if you need to make a call? There are a few ways to make and answer calls on an iPad. You can use the Phone app, which is built into the iPad and lets you make and receive calls from other iOS devices or landlines. You can also use VoIP apps like Skype or FaceTime to make calls from your iPad. And finally, you can use third-party apps like RingCentral or Talkatone to make and answer calls from your iPad. whichever method works best for you. But whatever route you choose, be sure to take some precautions so that your phone doesn’t get too busy and your call quality suffers. For example, try not to call during peak hours (between 7am and 9pm), when there’s more traffic on the network. And always keep in mind that if someone is calling from outside of the United States, their call may not go through (unless they’re using an app like Skype that supports international calling). ..
Making and answering calls on your iPad is a little-known feature that can be pretty amazing in use, and all you need is to have your tablet and your iPhone near one another. Thanks to the magic of Apple’s Continuity features, handling calls on an iPad is one of those features that you might forget exists, but can be handy if you already have your tablet in front of you.
Before You Get Started
If you want to use your iPad as a big phone, you’ll need to have a couple of prerequisites ticked off before getting started. You’ll need to have an iPhone and iPad that are:
Connected to the same Wi-Fi network. Logged into the same iCloud account in Settings. Running iOS 8. 1 or later, which shouldn’t be too hard at this point.
Assuming all of those boxes are checked, let’s move on.
How to Tell Your iPhone About Your iPad
If you’re going to have your calls routed to and from your iPad, you need to make sure that your iPhone knows that’s the plan. You only need to flick a couple of switches, and they’re both easy to find. Start by opening the Settings app and then tapping on the “Phone” entry.
Next, tap “Calls on Other Devices” and turn on the “Allow Calls on Other Devices” toggle. This will reveal a list of the devices that are signed into your Apple ID. Make sure that you enable any device on which you want to make or answer calls—like your iPad.
Once this is done, you’re ready to move on to your iPad.
How to Enable Calls on Your iPad
Now that your iPhone is all set up, open the Settings app on your iPad and tap the “FaceTime” entry.
Turn on the “Calls from iPhone” toggle. It’s likely that this setting is already enabled, but it’s worth checking to be sure.
Now, whenever you receive a call you can answer it on your iPad by tapping the “Answer” button.
How to Make a Call From Your iPad
To make a call from your iPad, first, open the Contacts app (since there’s no Phone app). Next, tap the name of the contact you want to call.
On the contact’s page, tap the blue “call” button below their name. Alternatively, tap the phone number you want to call.
That’s all there is to it. Congratulations, you just turned your iPad into the world’s largest phone.
