That is, making a call using my iPhone works very well from my iPad and my MBA – but whenever I try to make a call from my iMac, I get the message 'iPhone not available: Your iPhone and Mac must be on the same Wi-Fi network' (my translation from Swedish). I have a similar problem – but only with one Mac. as a quick fix I opened up my iPhones wifi settings and clicked on the ℹ next to worknetwork and changed it from DHCP to Static and inputted all the correct numbers. Mine was set up incorrectly and never noticed. Log into your routers and look at your settings. My router at work was giving me a public ip address (99.111.x.x) as opposed to a local one (192.168.1.xxx) and the mask was different as well. While I was on the same network, we'll call it 'worknetwork' my ip address and subnet mask were different on my phone. I called Applecare and we went through everything and we did a screen share and were both complexed as to why the cellular calls wouldn't work but texting and handoff did without a hitch. i was logged into the same network and bluetooth was on. When I got to work with my macbook air and my iPhone 5, using my work network, everything worked except the phone calls from the mac. Hand off works with my iMac and my macbook air at home with my iPhone 5 on my home network. Also iPad on 802.11n/2.4Ghz WiFi (SSID#2) Airport Express (bridge mode) WAN port, connected via 100Mb Netgear Ethernet switch and GigE Netgear switch to LAN port on Airport Extreme 802.11a/5GHz (SSID#1) to iPhone 5s).Īpple could possibly make the error message more specific than 'make sure the two are on the same WiFi network'. e.g., I have tested a MBA connected through Belkin Thunderbolt Dock w/Broadcom GigE - Netgear GigE switch - Airport Extreme 802.11a/5Ghz Wifi - iPhone 5s. WiFi is NOT a must, any Ethernet connectivity will do (although WiFi is more or less necessary to/from the iPhone :-). Your Mac only needs to be connected to the same IP subnet as the iPhone through whatever convoluted combination of Ethernet and WiFi access points and technologies. One more time too: The Ethernet/WiFi connection doesn't matter. It seems counterintuitive that making a call from the Mac to/through the iPhone would need an INbound connection, but apparently. (The other two are fine.) I use this setting for sitting on open internet and forget to turn it off when home or behind a firewall. FOUND IT!!! - be sure to go to System Preferences/Security & Privacy/Firewall Options and make sure the 'Block all incoming connections' is NOT checked.

Iphone calls on mac not working