{"id":1814,"date":"2018-01-02T16:48:59","date_gmt":"2018-01-02T16:48:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/?p=1814"},"modified":"2018-01-02T17:03:37","modified_gmt":"2018-01-02T17:03:37","slug":"call-with-iphone-for-macos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/2018\/01\/call-with-iphone-for-macos\/","title":{"rendered":"“Call with iPhone” for macOS"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"call-with-iphone\"<\/p>\n

Six years ago I made a little utility<\/a>\u00a0to right-click a phone number on my computer and dial it using Skype. I’ve used this daily for years, but it broke recently with Skype’s redesign<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I don’t otherwise have a reason to use Skype regularly these days, and ever since Apple introduced the ability to make phone calls from macOS<\/a>\u00a0via FaceTime (and your iPhone), I’ve been meaning to explore using that instead anyway.<\/p>\n

FaceTime supports the tel<\/code>\u00a0protocol, so adapting my AppleScript to use that was easy.<\/p>\n

You can download it\u00a0here<\/a>. Double-clicking the file should open Automator and prompt you to install it (or install manually by putting the file in ~\/Library\/Services\/<\/code>).<\/p>\n

Now you should be able to right-click any phone number (including international formats) in most applications and “Call with iPhone” using FaceTime (it does make a “real” phone call, not FaceTime or FaceTime Audio). If an application other than FaceTime launches, you probably need to go to FaceTime > Preferences<\/code>\u00a0and set FaceTime as the “Default for calls”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Six years ago I made a little utility\u00a0to right-click a phone number on my computer and dial it using Skype. I’ve used this daily for years, but it broke recently with Skype’s redesign. I don’t otherwise have a reason to use Skype regularly these days, and ever since Apple introduced the ability to make phone […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1895,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[182],"tags":[184,183,174],"class_list":["post-1814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-projects","tag-iphone","tag-macos","tag-projects"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/call-with-iphone.gif?fit=%2C&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1G65p-tg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1814"}],"version-history":[{"count":91,"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1914,"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1814\/revisions\/1914"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}