The dream of making phone calls from an old and long iPad and we were unique globally years ago by converting the first generation of it into a phone - the biggest technology sites talked about Check out this link-. In iOS 8, Apple fulfilled this dream in part. You can now receive phone calls, but on iPad and your Mac computer. In the following lines, you will know how to do this.

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Before we start:

  • This feature is special and exclusive to iOS 8 if your device is anything else it will not work for you.
  • An iPhone must be available as the idea of ​​the feature is that you receive calls on the iPhone on the iPad, if you do not have an iPhone, it will not work with you.
  • Handoff has a lot of things but we only talk about phone calls.

To activate the feature, do the following steps:

1

Log in to the cloud - iCloud - on all your devices with the same account. It does not matter what services you do, but it is important to log in with the same account on the iPhone and iPad.

2

Ensure that your devices are connected to the same Wi-Fi network, as The method will not work When your devices are connected on different networks.

3

Make sure that you are logged into the FaceTime service on the iPhone and iPad with the same account as well, and that the service is activated.

4

Do the service by going to Settings> General> Handoff and enable it

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5

For T-Mobile users in America, turn off the Wi-Fi calling feature.

Congratulations the steps have finished If you have a connection on the iPhone, you will find it appears on the iPad and tells you that this connection is from the iPhone.

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And when you answer the call from the iPad, you will find the iPhone screen showing that there is a call in the background and when you touch the green bar at the top, the call will be canceled from the iPad and will be transferred to the iPhone.

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This feature is great, especially for iPad users, as they can leave the iPhone in any room or on the charger, and if they get a call, they can answer it from the iPad and when they reach the phone, they move to it. We hope that Apple will find a way to make it work with messages as well - SMS, because the iMassage will reach the iPad -.

What do you think about this feature, and did you activate it in your devices and receive calls on the iPad? Share your opinion

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