Change preferences in FaceTime on Mac

Sign Out

Stop receiving FaceTime calls on your Mac. You need to sign in again to use FaceTime. See Sign in to or out of FaceTime.

Enable this account

Deselect to stop receiving FaceTime calls or phone calls on your Mac. You can reenable the account without signing in again. See Sign in to or out of FaceTime.

You can be reached for FaceTime at

Select the checkboxes next to the email addresses and phone numbers that other people can use to call you in FaceTime. You can update this list on the Apple ID account website. See Choose how people can call you in FaceTime.

Calls from iPhone

Allow your Mac to use your iPhone to make and receive phone calls. These calls use cellular minutes. See Set up your iPhone and Mac for phone calls.

Upgrade to Wi-Fi Calling

Allow your Mac to use your iPhone to make and receive phone calls in FaceTime.

Only appears when you select Calls from iPhone and your iPhone is turned off or on a different Wi-Fi network.

Automatic Prominence: Speaking

For Group FaceTime calls, deselect to prevent the tile of the person speaking from becoming larger.

Allow Live Photos to be captured during Video calls

Allow the other person to capture a Live Photo from your Mac, iOS device, or iPadOS device camera during a FaceTime video call. See Take a Live Photo.

Start new calls from

If you have more than one email address or phone number set up, choose which one others see when you call them.

Ringtone

Choose the sound that is played when you receive a call. See Change FaceTime ringtones.

Location

Change the country or region that your FaceTime account is registered as being in to ensure your calls use the correct telephone number format.

Default for calls

Choose the default app to start calls from. This also includes calls started from URLs in a telephone format.

Blocked

Review addresses or phone numbers of callers that are blocked. See Block callers.