How to add contact to facetime
Last Updated on May 8, 2023 by Kennedy
This article covers every detail on how to add contact to facetime, and I simply mean to add any of your contact detail to your facetime account.
I will explain this question in two ways, adding extra phone number or email address to your facetime, and adding a phone number or Apple ID to the facetime app that is not in your contact list.
By default, facetime will activate using your apple ID and phone number if available, but on the other hand you can also add multiple addresses to your facetime.
This is available on both facetime for iPhone, iPad and Mac computer.
Lets proceed to the steps.
How to add contact to facetime
To add contact to facetime, you need to do the followings;
- Open the settings app on your iPhone and tap on your profile name.
- On the next screen tap where it says Name, phone numbers and email.
- As the next window opens, tap on edit, followed by tapping on where it says add email or phone number.
- Select email address or phone number.
- Enter your email address and tap on Next.
- Now you will need to verify the email address you entered, so go ahead and verify the email address.
- After the verification has been completed, you will be asked if you want to use the email address for iMessage and facetime, go ahead and tap on OK.
- And that’s it.
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Now let me give you a detailed explanation along with images on how to add contact to facetime.
Get started by opening the Settings app on your iPhone.
Next thing to do is to tap on your profile name as shown below.
You will get to your apple ID profile information which includes iCloud, media purchases, etc.
Now what you will look out for is where it says Name, Phone Numbers, Email as shown below.
Now tap on the option that says Name, Phone Numbers, Email.
Next window is where to edit your apple ID information, so what you need to do is to tap on the edit button before your apple ID email address.
Once you have done that, you will be presented with the option to add email or phone number.
Tap on the option that says Add email or phone number as shown above.
If talking about how to add contact to facetime is to add a phone number or email address, you have to select your preferred option.
For example, you want to add an email address, simply tap on Add an Email Address or if you want to add phone, number then tap on Add a Phone Number.
Next window is where you will enter the the email address or phone number.
A verification code will be sent to the email address or phone number you entered, and you will be provided with an option to enter the verification code sent to your email address or phone number.
So go ahead and complete the verification process.
Once you have done that, you will be asked if you want to add the email address or phone number to your iMessage and facetime.
Go ahead and tap on the OK button.
That’s it.
You have successfully added a phone number or email address to your facetime and iMessage.
Go back and you will see that the email address will appear on your profile, iMessage and facetime.
You can select the new phone number or email address as your facetime caller id or just to receive facetime calls.
This is what is involved when it comes to how to add contact to facetime on your iPhone.
The second question will be what of ipad and Mac, will the added contact appear in ipad and Mac?
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How to add contacts to facetime on ipad
To add contacts to facetime on ipad, you simply need to edit your apple ID and add a new phone number or email address to your apple ID account.
It is just the same with the iphone process.
Mind you, if you happen to have both iphone and iPad with the same apple ID connected to both devices, once you add a new email address or phone number to your apple ID on iPhone, it will still reflect on your iPad.
To add contacts to facetime on ipad, open the settings app and tap on your profile apple ID.
Next is to tap where it says Name, phone numbers and email.
Upon the next window, tap on edit button, followed by tapping on where it says add email or phone number.
Select email address or phone number based on what you want to add
Enter your email address and tap on Next.
Now you will need to verify the email address you entered, so go ahead and verify the email address.
After the verification has been completed, you will be asked if you want to use the email address for iMessage and facetime, go ahead and tap on OK and that’s how to add a number to facetime on ipad.
Adding a contact to the facetime app
Now if you want to make a call using the facetime on your iPhone or iPad, this is the way to add contact to facetime app;
- Open the facetime app on your iPhone or iPad.
- Tap on New FaceTime button.
- Tap on the green plus ➕ icon and scroll down to select the contact.
- If the contact us not saved in your phone, simply enter the contact phone number or email address where it says To.
- Once you have entered the recipient email address or phone number, both facetime audio call or video call will appear.
- Tap on any of the two and that’s it.
- As long as you dialed the number on your device, it will display on your facetime app.
Incase the question of how to add contact to facetime simply means to add a phone number or email address to the facetime app, that’s just the way to do it.
Why can’t I add a contact to facetime on my ipad?
This will occur if the contact number or email address is not activated with facetime or your iPad facetime is not activated.
As long as you have activated facetime on your iPad, and the recipient contact like phone number or Email address is also activated with facetime, you should be able to add the recipient contact to your facetime.
If what you mean is to add your phone number to your facetime account, then you have make sure that the phone number us still active and you successfully verified the phone number.
