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# Receiving calls from your cell phone

If both your computer and cellular phone are Bluetooth enabled, and you have paired both devices using the Bluetooth pane of System Preferences, Address Book will notify you of incoming calls.

When you receive a phone call, a window appears showing the caller's number. If the caller is in your address book, his or her name is also shown.

## To answer the call, do one of the following:

- To speak to the caller, click Answer, then pick up your cell phone.

- Click "Send to Voicemail" to stop your phone from ringing and allow the caller to leave a message. This is the same as pressing the Voicemail button on your cell phone.

- To send the caller to voicemail and create a new Short Message Service (SMS) message to reply to the caller, click Send SMS Reply. This is a handy way to silence the incoming call but still reply to the caller without disturbing others. Make sure the caller's phone can receive SMS messages. If it can't, you will not be notified.

The Address Book application must be open for you to be notified of incoming calls. Depending on the caller's location, the number displayed by Address Book might be formatted differently than you expect.

For more information about pairing Bluetooth devices or using Bluetooth, open Bluetooth File Exchange, located in Applications/Utilities, and choose Help > Bluetooth Help.

## See also

cell phones

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