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How to Setup Continuity
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I had to play around with it for a bit.
Bluetooth has to be on all devices, signed into the same iCloud account.
on my iPad air I had to turn off FaceTime, then turn it back on and login to the iCloud account. Once I did this the setting for iPhone cellular calls popped up and it works like a champ.
I called my iPhone using a land line and my iPad also started ringing a few seconds after my iPhone did. I could also place calls from my iPad using the contacts app.
Hope this helps
really?
I couldn't get ANY handoff/continuity things to work between iPhone/ipad until I turnd on the bluetooth on my iPad, then it immediately started working.
Odd. I haven't really tried / looked for anything but calls. But calls def works with no Bluetooth so I would imagine the whole system would ?
Yes, making and receiving calls on iDevices does not require bluetooth at all. It's all done over your local wifi/network (wifi doesn't need to be on your Mac either).
I was able to receive and make calls with my iMac even though its wifi is not on. My iPhone, of course, is on WiFi, and so is my iPad.
What's cool is all three of my devices ring if someone calls my phone number.
I wish we could get official word on it lol. Some using just wifi. Sole just Bluetooth. Blah
Maaby certain things use Bluetooth to do an initial handshake and maybe others don't need that?
The phone calling stuff doesn't use bluetooth at all.
You will need a certain type of bluetooth LE to use the Continuity items that have been largely pushed back to October/November.
Ethernet - connected to the router that's creating the WiFi network. I always keep WiFi turned off on my desktop computer - save the bandwidth for the devices that move around.
Same here, well the 5C & Ipad 4 seem to connect the Mini not so much.
No Bluetooth on here either. It actually says in the settings that for phone calls it needs wifi.
doesn't seem to be working with my macbook pro running Yosemite public beta...what should I do to test it? Tried starting an email on my mac and seeing if it would show up on the iPhone 5S, but no dice...restarted both devices and turned off bluetooth then turned it back on but no luck yet. Anything else I can try?