My New Mac, Lion Edition

Making a Call with FaceTime

To call an iPhone user, you must have that person’s iPhone number stored in your Address Book. To call a Macintosh, iPad, or iPod touch user, you must have that person’s email address stored in your Address Book.

Every time someone tries to call you, FaceTime records that person’s FaceTime identifier (a phone number for an iPhone user and an email address for everyone else). By clicking a saved FaceTime account identifier, you can call someone back, even if you don’t have that person’s iPhone number or email addresses stored in your Address Book.

To make a FaceTime call to someone else, first store that person’s iPhone number or email in Address Book. Then do this:

1. Start FaceTime.

2. Click the Contacts icon in the bottom-right ...