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[jeepik]

Apple's support document, DATED YESTERDAY, states that you can go ahead and place the phone call from a Mac running OS X El Capitan and "your iPhone could be right next to you or far away—it could even be off."

My iPhone is the 6s Plus.

I just tried making a phone call from my Mac with the phone nearby AND turned on AND Wi-Fi turned off.

I get the following alert on my iMac running OS X El Capitan 10.11.2:

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My iMac is enabled for Wi-Fi calling:

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AND I already signed AT&T's disclaimer about 911 calls and TTY devices.

AND I already performed the Carrier Settings update (yesterday immediately after the update to iOS 9.2).

WTF, Apple?

So which is it? The phone must be nearby AND on the same Wi-Fi network, OR the phone could be far away or even turned off?

It just works my ass.

It works amazingly well on all my macs.. 2014 MacBook pro, 2012 MacBook pro, iPad pro, iPad air 2

My phone can have bluetooth off and not on same network and my other devices ring and i was able to place a call from my iPad while my iPhone had bluetooth off and was not on wifi

You need to make sure your OS X and iOS devices authenticate with the phone using the activate code

 

[xdhd350]

So Numbersync works on my iPad as I was able to make a call with my 6s+ turned off, but I can't get it working with the watch. All on the same wifi network in my home, all logged in under my iCloud account. Any ideas what else to try?

 

[vooke]

All I noted on my 6 Plus is that the wifi reception has improved significantly