Hello there. There are two ways to do this. The first way will require your real cell phone number to be an authorized forwarding number on your Google voice account. as long as your cell phone number is an authorized number in your account, go to settings inside GV connect. There is a section which is labeled start calls from. When you double tap this section you can choose various options. If you choose your iPhone number what will happen is that as you make a call, GV connect will negotiate the phone call and you will receive an incoming call into your real cell phone number. When you answer this incoming call, your outgoing call will be placed through. As far as your cell phone is concerned, you just received an incoming call from your Google voice number. As far as the person you are calling is concerned, you just gave them a call and the caller ID shows that you were calling from your Google voice number.
The second way is similar, however instead of choosing your cell phone number as the callback number, you can choose direct dial. What will happen is that when you make a phone call from GV connect, it will use a temporary and random assigned number from Google to make the outbound call. This temporary outbound number is what Google has assigned for that particular number that you were calling. As long as you call this number, your phone call will appear to come from your Google voice number rather than you real cell phone number. In fact what you can even do is take it a step further and if you want, you can make phone calls outside of GV connect or you can send text messages outside of GV connect from your iPhone, for example from the phone app or the messages app. I use the word temporary, but what I should say is custom. Using these custom Google assigned numbers you can create alternate contacts. What I usually do is if I have a contact name John Smith, create another contact named John Smith GV. This contact is the one with the Google assigned random number. If I text John Smith to this number or call John Smith at this number, it appears as if it is coming from my Google voice number rather than my real number. I know I said that I had two ways, but there are actually three. This last method however will not work after May 15 this year using GV connect. This involves the use of another app called talk a tone which is free from the app store. You must download and install talk a tone and configure it with your Google voice account. Once that is done, you are all set. From GV connect settings in the callbacks section choose Google talk instead of a phone number. There is an option to enable talkatone. Now when you make a call from GV connect, it will use talk tone as the carrier. This will not use your cell phone minutes. It will use data. You can do this on Wi-Fi or cellular data. Again, this method will not work after May 15 this year. Good luck. --- Sent from Raul's rectangular glass - 832.554.7285 Please excuse any auto complete or dictation weirdness. > On Apr 7, 2014, at 2:39 PM, Larry McCreary <[email protected]> wrote: > > How do I configure gv connect to permit me to call a number on my iPhone and > talk to the party I am calling on the iPhone? At present the call has to be > on my forwarded number. thanks much > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. > All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any > questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a > member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators > directly rather than posting on the list itself. The archives for this list > can be searched at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. The archives for this list can be searched at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
