Does iPhone Mirroring allow calling from your Mac?

Continuity features and requirements for Apple devices - Apple Support

Make and receive phone calls on Mac or iPad - Apple Support

"With the iPhone Cellular Calls feature, you can make and receive phone calls from your Mac or iPad when those devices are on the same network as your iPhone."

This is a separate feature from iPhone Mirroring.

Because the rest of you appear to be talking in circles and incapable of answering the question in a direct manner, allow me to be emphatically clear! The new iPhone Mirroring feature DOES NOT allow you to make or receive phone calls while your phone is in the mirroring mode with your Mac.

The inability to make or receive calls is incredibly disappointing. And as awkwardly stated by Barney below, this makes the mirroring feature essentially useless. As I explained to the Apple Sr. Tech Rep, who needed 3 minutes to investigate my question regarding making calls, having the mirroring feature is comparable to having a car in which you can only listen to the radio, run the AC or heat, recline the driver seat, open the glove box, or look under the seat. You can do everything and anything in the car, BUT drive the freaking car - the one thing you DEFINITELY want to be able to do with your car.

The worst and most idiotic aspect of Mirroring NOT allowing you to make or receive calls is that you can make and receive calls from your MAC via your iPhone through the FaceTime app. Apple should have banked on their FT technology and provided a feature which would allow phone calls to be made through Mirroring, before releasing an essentially useless and pointless new gadget. Additionally, it's irresponsible of Apple to release this non-feature and NOT state EXPLICITLY and REPEATEDLY the non-feature WILL NOT ALLOW you to make or receive calls

tl;dr: TURN OFF iPhone Mirroring FIRST. Then reopen it during the call.

How to make calls while using "iPhone Mirroring" AT THE SAME TIME:

1 - Turn OFF iPhone mirroring

2 - Initiate a call from your Mac "via your iPhone" (see this guide)

3 - Once the call starts, launch iPhone mirroring

=> TADAAA, you are on a call and using iPhone mirroring at the same time!

Same applies to the AW (Apple Watch) btw: you cannot initiate a call from AW while iPhone mirroring is active on your Mac.

Therefore, what @raurakes214 wrote is not entirely true. However it would be nice indeed to enable calls directly from the iPhone mirroring app. I just copy/pasted this message to Apple Feedback. Please do the same, and let's hope they implement it!

It isn't useless at all. I leave my phone to charge downstairs and get stuff off it using apps I don't have on my Mac. I can swap files out of it that way too, send messages, copy/paste info.

Maybe just on newer versions since this comment, it makes clear calls and camera use won't work in mirroring, though they will doubtless add it, as audio and video streaming are implemented elsewhere.

Which raises the question, if you can already make/take calls from the Mac, where is the big issue/missing feature? Just do it the other way.

Wi-Fi Calling allows you to make phone calls from your Mac.

iPhone Mirroring just allows you to view and interact with your iPhone from your Mac.

I don't believe that will work unless you connect some bluetooth headphones to your Mac, then use it with Facetime.

Haven't played with it much yet beyond a first test that it works...but I could see challenges with pushing audio and/or video between you computer and phone when the phone absolutely is physically involved in the call (because SIM card). Probably not there yet - but as I say, can't personally confirm or deny yet.

Thanks. iPhone Mirroring looks impressive, but doesn’t seem to bring much that is useful.

The only thing I've used it for is answering posts on various chat apps that I don't have on my Mac. I don't have to go find my phone to see who sent me something. And, I can respond right from my Mac. That makes it pretty much great for me.

I use bluetooth headphones connected to my iPhone for making and receiving calls. It would convenient to use iPhone Mirroring to dial the iPhone. I don't want to use FaceTime on my Mac because my Mac is not connected to the bluetooth headphones. I find FaceTime on annoying to use.

Is that possible?

RSNelson wrote:

I use bluetooth headphones connected to my iPhone for making and receiving calls. It would convenient to use iPhone Mirroring to dial the iPhone. I don't want to use FaceTime on my Mac because my Mac is not connected to the bluetooth headphones. I find FaceTime on annoying to use.

Is that possible?

What happens when you try?

RSNelson wrote:

I use bluetooth headphones connected to my iPhone for making and receiving calls. It would convenient to use iPhone Mirroring to dial the iPhone. I don't want to use FaceTime on my Mac because my Mac is not connected to the bluetooth headphones. I find FaceTime on annoying to use.

Is that possible?

One solution is to connect your Bluetooth headphones to your Mac, which is how I deal with this. Just about all Bluetooth headphones can be paired to more than one device.

PabloHocacanyan wrote:

I 100% agree with your thoughts on Apple making useless things.

My God, how we all miss Steve!!

Ah, is that the same Steve who said, “You’re Holding it wrong” and “I know more about what people want that they do?"

Well, the second one might not be wrong. There's plenty of empirical research in psychology to suggest that people don't actually know what they want most of the time. And also some to suggest that people who think they know what they want often end up disappointed because they were wrong.

PabloHocacanyan wrote:

It is that Steve who saved Apple from bankruptcy with the Macintosh and changed our lives with the iPhone. Just to name two...

You missed the point, I think. Mr. Finch wasn't referring to Mr. Jobs's business acumen but rather his arrogance at thinking he always knew better what customer should have, regardless of what they said they wanted.

I would also add that Apple has continued to do very well in the last 14 years.

IdrisSeabright wrote:

You missed the point, I think. Mr. Finch wasn't referring to Mr. Jobs's business acumen but rather his arrogance at thinking he always knew better what customer should have, regardless of what they said they wanted.

Steve Jobs was always ahead of the curve:

• in 1984 he equipped the original Macintosh with a mouse, even though when demonstrated to focus groups the response was almost always “What a stupid way to use a computer"
• The original Macintosh used a hard-cased (“Sony”) diskette, rather than the floppy disks every other computer had
• Later, he was the first to dump that diskette drive, even after being told that no one would buy a computer that didn’t have one; instead, he added a built-in CD/DVD drive
• And, of course, he later dumped the CD/DVD internal drive in favor of direct downloads
• Let’s not forget the original iPod, at a time when most people used “walkman” style cassette players, along with a sophisticated way to manage a music library and playlists
• And, as was mentioned, the iPhone; the industry pundits universally panned it, claiming that Apple had no idea how to make a cell phone, and predicted it would be a total flop.

It wasn’t all successes; he had flops also; the Lisa and the Newton (I still have one) are two examples. But overall he led the industry, making things for people that they didn’t know they needed until they had them.