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iOS 9 Extends Continuity Phone Call Features to Cellular Connections

Roessnakhan said:
I can't wait to use this when AT&T finally enables WiFi calling.

*dies waiting*
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Or T-Mo's mothership: Deutsche Telekom in Germany...

*cough*

Guess they are too confident about their market position.
Probably adds costs and as long as nobody else is offering it: suck it up, paying plebs!

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I had a strange thing happen yesterday. I was at work talking on my iPhone and my iPad (with T-Mobile service) was sitting on my desk next to me (not connected to WiFi). My iPad started ringing from the person I was on the phone with. He said that his phone has been acting up and that it had been randomly calling people. So, my iPad was ringing while only on Cellular, while I was on the phone talking to this person. I thought it was very strange but makes me wonder if T-Mobile was testing some things and if this feature is less about ios9 and more about the carrier? I'm running ios8 BTW.
 
For some reason my iPhone 6 with Sprint (iOS 9) shows an "Add Wi-Fi Calling For Other Devices" option, but when tapping it, I get "To allow Wi-Fi calls on this account, contact your carrier."
 
Hi, could anyone here help me with this:

Exactly how much 'continuity' and 'handoff' is possible between an iPhone 5s and a Late 2011 MBP 15?
 
It means that we can call everywhere even if we are not in the USA because T-mobile international plan ($15) can call everywhere. It's awesome. perhaps if we just connect any wi-fi, we will not need to use roaming service.
 
Hmm - not sure if this is connected (and I can't see how it can be) but this afternoon I started getting calls that mywife made/received appearing in my recent calls list. This hasn't happened before.
 
MacRumors said:




That means an iPhone can continue to forward calls to a Mac or an iPad even when it's in an entirely different physical location. So, for example, if you forget your iPhone at home, you can continue to receive incoming calls on your Mac while at work, so long as your Mac is connected to a Wi-Fi network.
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What about on a wired network? We don't have wifi at work, but we are wired in.
 
spaceballl said:
This is so freaking cool. T-Mobile coverage may not be as good as ATT / VZW, but when they continue to stay ahead of the game like this, it makes me feel even better about being a customer.
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AT&T thinks its network is so above supporting WiFi calling yet. It's not. My calls placed using cellular come and go at my house. My Wifi is good until I hit the back deck. But I can't switch to T-Mobile or Sprint despite the fact that this feature is neat and I can get a discount on Sprint. Verizon is awesome for coverage, slooooww on speed. AT&T is fast as hell when you stick on it.
 
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farewelwilliams said:
still need to solve 5 Apple devices ringing the same room.
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you know, when you pick up one to answer a call and the other 4 devices are still ringing and you have to leave the freaking room because you can't hear the person on the call.
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This is a fair criticism. I know in theory your Apple devices should all ring, and when you answer one they all stop, but I frequently take a call on my iPhone, and then receive the notification on my Mac.
 
farewelwilliams said:
still need to solve 5 Apple devices ringing the same room.
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you know, when you pick up one to answer a call and the other 4 devices are still ringing and you have to leave the freaking room because you can't hear the person on the call.
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While I understand the trouble, I can't help laugh at the situation. There are guests in the room and suddenly 5 phones are ringing and it must be like: Did Apple just invent surround sound ringtone?
 
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MacRumors said:
That means an iPhone can continue to forward calls to a Mac or an iPad even when it's in an entirely different physical location. So, for example, if you forget your iPhone at home, you can continue to receive incoming calls on your Mac while at work, so long as your Mac is connected to a Wi-Fi network.
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Guess I'll need to be better about logging out of my work and home computers and silencing my iPad. Don't really want all those things ringing (or potentially being answered by someone else) when I'm just at lunch and only have my phone.
 
both my and my wife's computers are on our shared icloud, and we both use them at work. so when one of us gets a call, are we constantly going to be barraged by the other calls coming in? seems like they need an ability for other devices and computers to opt out of the call continuity.
 
HenryDJP said:
I get you about the multiple devices ringing but once I pick up one of them the ringing stops on all of them. Not sure why you're saying that they continue to ring.
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there's usually a lag for me too. i'll pick one up to answer and the others still ring once or twice before stopping. my concern are computers brought to work, kids laptops going to school, all devices that may be on an icloud account getting calls all day long that aren't for them.
 
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